Jeffrey Harris (b.1932)
Born: Leeds Yorkshire UK 1932
Studied Painting and Printmaking Leeds College of Art 1948-52
Leeds College of Art Travelling Scholarship: 6 months study in Paris 1952
Moved to St Ives Cornwall 1956
Shared 7 Porthmeor Studio with Gwen Leitch 1959-70
Member of Penwith Society of Arts and Crafts in Cornwall 1956-70
Lecturer Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall 1965-68
Emigrated to Australia 1970
Lecturer at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart 1970-2
Lecturer at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide 1973-89
Study Leave UK art colleges and polytechnics 1980
Retired to paint full-time, extensive travel and painting in Australia and return trips to St Ives, and UK 1990
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Solo Exhibitions
1961
Inaugural one-person show, Rowan Gallery, London
1962
5 Young British Artists, Rowan Gallery, London
1962, 65
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, UK
1970
New Arts Centre, Hobart
1971
Lombard Street Gallery, Adelaide
1971
Lidum's Gallery, Adelaide
1976
Gallery de Graphic, Adelaide
1981
Montrichard Gallery, Adelaide
1986
Montrichard Gallery Adelaide Festival of Arts exhibition
1990
New Painting- Jeff Harris Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1990
Portraits of Places, Grennhill Gallery, Adelaide
1994
Kensington Gallery, Adelaide (etchings)
1997
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, works on paper
2000
Testament, 16 Linocut prints, St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
2006
On a Summer's Day, Adelaide Central Gallery
2012
My Father's Table, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
1957-69
Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, group shows three times per year.
Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
1962-63
Plymouth City Art Gallery, Plymouth
1966
Axiom Gallery, London,
1966
Structure '66, Arts Council UK
1979
Australian Print Gallery, Melbourne
1982
Montrichard Gallery, Adelaide
1984
Sydenham Gallery, Adelaide
1985
Montrichard Gallery, Adelaide, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1985-88
Annual group shows, South Australian College of the Arts Gallery
1989
Port Adelaide in Perspective, Royal Society of Arts, Adelaide
1990, 97
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1998-99
Oils, Watercolours, Lino Prints shown in mixed exhibitions Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
1999
Prouds Art Gallery, Sydney
2000
Kedumba Drawing Prize, NSW - Invited Artist
1997
Blake Prize Exhibition for Religious Art
1998
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale
2002
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale
The Mandorla Art Award, WA
Kedumba Drawing Prize NSW
2003-05
Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape
2020, 22
Belgrave St Ives, St Ives & Modern British exhibition
Awards and Acquisitions
1953 Leeds College of Art Travelling Scholarship, Paris
1965 British Council Acquisition Award
1980 Residency Oxford Print Union, Oxford University
1988 Burnside Bicentennial Art Prize
1989 Whyalla City (South Australia) Art Prize: Painting
1997 People's Choice Award, Blake Prize for Religious Art
2002 Kedumba Drawing Prize, acquisition for collection
2003 Drawing Prize, Hysen Prize for Australian Landscape
2012 Arts South Australia Grant for 'My Father's Table' exhibition.
Collections
Artbank, Australia
Allen & Allen Hemsley, Sydney
Arts Council of Great Britain
Cornwall County Council, UK
Education Department. Preston, Lancashire, UK
Parliament House Canberra, Australia
The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawing
New Norcia Monastery, Western Australia
Whitworth Art Collection Manchester University, UK
Private collections Australia, Italy, UK, and USA.
Bibliography: books, essays, reviews, features (selected)
My Fathers Table catalogue essay, Walker Wendy, Light Square Gallery, 2012
St Ives Revisited. Peter Davies, Bakehouse Publications, 1994
St Ives 1883-1993 Portrait of an Art Colony. Whybrow, P. Art Collectors Publications, 1994
100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery. Hardie, M. Patten Press, UK. 1995.
Sights for Sore Eyes, Giles Auty, The Australian, Review section, March 22-23, 1997
New Painting 58-61 Alan Bowness, catalogue essay. Arts Council of Great Britain
Britain's Art Colony by the Sea Denis Val Baker, Denis. 1959. London: George Ronald Publishing
The Australian works in the exhibition 'JEFFREY HARRIS - Paintings and Prints from Cornwall and Australia, 1968 - 2022' were made on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. We acknowledge the Kaurna as the traditional owners of the Adelaide plains, and we pay respect to Elders past and present. We recognize and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship to the land, sea, and community.