David Brenchley

I've been painting since 1971 when the pervading perfume of linseed oil in a Sydney artists supplies shop awakened me to my real interest in art. My love of the bush made landscape painting the obvious choice of subject.

I have lived in various parts of Victoria and travelled extensively in NSW and Queensland painting and drawing, most recently in the Noosa hinterland. I've now settled in Castlemaine where I am renewing earlier connections.

Solo Exhibitions Gallery 154, New York City, USA.1994; 
Collins Street Gallery, Melbourne 1999; 
Customs House Gallery, Warrnambool 1998; 
 Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Melbourne 1998; Bruce Watling Galleries, Southport, Qld 
1998;  Kate's off Chapel Galleria, Melbourne 1995; Reflections Gallery, Melbourne 
1990;  Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham 1989; Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham 
1988; Mornington Gallery, Victoria 1988; Stanyers Gallery, Maldon Victoria  
1986; Lamplighter Gallery, Melbourne 
1984;  Wattletree Gallery, Melbourne 1983; Leongatha Gallery, Leongatha Victoria 
1981;  Field Workshop Gallery, Melbourne 1980; 
Gallery 333, Melbourne 1979;
  Gallery 333, Melbourne 1978.

Group Exhibitions: Castlemaine State Festival Drawing Prize 1986 (invitational
); Giles Street Gallery Canberra; Eltham Art Awards 1989 (invitational
); Diamond Valley Art Awards 1989 (invitational); 
Mornington Gallery (three person show) 1987; 
Mornington Gallery (two person show) 1990; 
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 1990; 
Featured Artist, St James Uniting Church; 
Wattle Park Art Show 1993; 
Hangups Gallery, Brisbane; Shire of Eltham Retrospective Exhibition 1993; 
Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo, World Congress Centre 1996; 
Bruce Watling Galleries, Southport, Qld 1996; 
Artarmon Gallery, Sydney 1996; 
Editions Southbank Gallery Melbourne; BMW Australia and the German - Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce Art, Exhibition 1996; 
Flying Fish Gallery, Melbourne 1996.

Prizes 1991: Highly Commended, Melbourne High School Art Show 1987: 1st Prize and Highly Commended, Parade College (Judge Susan McCulloch) 1st Prize, Victorian Police Art Show Judge's Prize, Oil, Frankston Rotary Art Show, (Judge David Roper Victorian Artists' Society); 1986: Shire of Eltham Acquisitive Prize. 1981: Foster Art Prize. 1979: Carlton Art Prize, Lygon Street Festa (Judge Clifton Pugh).

Collections: 
University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and other educational institutes, City of Moreland, City of Nillumbik, BHP Billiton, Heritage Grand Hotel (Auckland NZ) and other corporate collections and in private collections throughout Australia and overseas.

Commission: Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Gympie QLD, 2007.

Exhibited Internationally: 
Brit Susann Hanstein (Art Director) Ubach Pallenberg, Germany and, Art Associates, Auckland, New Zealand.

Bibliography: 
Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine, 3rd edition, 1990. A Buyers' Guide to Australian Art, Graham Ryles, Mandarin, 1992. Shire of Eltham Community Calendar, 1994.

Main image: Sunrise Lake Mungo - acrylic on paper (detail)

Weblinks:

Netherlands: Australischekunstenaar

Australia: Collins Street Gallery

Black and White photograph by Raoul Slater.