John Rigby

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Early 1940s: exhibited in the annual exhibitions of the Royal Queensland Art Society. 
During 1950s: showed in various annual exhibitions of Brisbane's Half Dozen Group of
Artists and the Queensland Artists of Fame and Promise Annual exhibitions.

Not listed: National touring exhibitions (often involving State or regional galleries) where
either winning, finalist or selected works were included, e.g. Women's Weekly Portrait Prize,
Archibald, Wynne, Sulman, Uncommon Australians, and Doug Moran National Portrait Prizes.

Note: Solo exhibitions unless otherwise noted.

1949 Strath Art Exhibition, Sydney
(mixed exhibition)
1951 Marodian Gallery, Brisbane (mixed exhibition:
The Strath Art Group)
1954 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (1st solo) 1955 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (mixed
exhibition: Four Queensland Artists)
1956 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane 1958 Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney
Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1961 Rudy Koman Gallery, Sydney (mixed exhibition: A Group of Brisbane Painters)

Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane

Raymond Burr Galleries, L.A., USA
(mixed exhibition: Australian Painting)
1962
Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
(mixed exhibition: 14 Queensland Painters)
1963 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane 1964 Rudy Koman Gallery, Sydney
(mixed exhibition: Brisbane Artists)
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
1965 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
(mixed exhibition)

Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1966 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
(mixed exhibition)
Rudy Koman Gallery, Sydney
(mixed exhibition: Brisbane Painters)

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1967 Design Arts Centre, Brisbane 1969 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Mixed exhibition aboard the Italian cruise
ships Galileo and Marconi.
1970 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane 1973 Young Australian Gallery, Brisbane
Reid Gallery, Brisbane
1974 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane 1976 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1978 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane 1981 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1984 Broadbeach Gallery, Gold Coast,
Queensland
1985 Wagner Gallery, Sydney
Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1986 Downs Gallery and Arts Centre, Toowoomba (with Judith Laws)
Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1988 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Wagner Gallery, Sydney 1990 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1992 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1993 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Buderim House, Buderim, Queensland 1995 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Wagner Gallery, Hong Kong
(mixed exhibition: Out of Queensland -
three Contemporary Painters)


Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1998 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
Liu Hai-su Art Museum, Shanghai, China 
(mixed exhibition: Out Of Australia:
An Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Paintings in Shanghai)
Bruce Watling Galleries, Gold Coast, Queensland (joint exhibition: Five Men and a Houseboat)
1999 Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
(mixed exhibition: International Year of
Older Persons Exhibition)
2000 Wagner Gallery, Sydney (mixed exhibition:
Modern Masters of Australian Painting )

Wagner Gallery, Sydney (Oct/Nov)
2001 Wagner Gallery, Sydney (Collectors’ Choice mixed exhibition)

Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong (mixed exhibition: Out of Australia)
2002 Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong (mixed exhibition: Australian Realists  & Modern Painters)
2004
Wagner Gallery, Sydney 2005
Art Gallery Collections, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
2006
Gallery G, Brisbane



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