Greenhill Galleries

Born 1945, Oban, Scotland.
1960-70 Various occupations, including four years as merchant seaman travelling worldwide.
1970/75 Diploma and Post Diploma of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee, Scotland.
1995 Master of Arts (research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Other activities of the artist include teaching in Scotland, Italy and Australia. Currently, Associate Professor in Fine Art (Part Time), Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Scottish born figurative artist Euan Heng has been living and working in Australia for 30 years. His paintings have a deliberation and preciseness gained by pre-working the images in pastel or pencil before committing them to paint. Contemporary symbolism, flat pattern making and the stylistic treatment of subject are trademark features of his work.

However, one of Heng's most striking traits is his acute and highly developed appreciation of the comic potentialities of human vanity. A lone man enacting out a simple and ambiguous gesture is the trademark to Heng’s imagery. Delighting in riddles, he seeks to continually shift the focus of a piece through what he refers to as ‘foils’. Whether this be the accentuation of a hand or a piece of clothing or through his use of plant, animal and bird iconography, these ’foils’ provide material for visual puns and stray symbolism to momentarily distract the viewer from the artist’s true narrative path. His strong reputation is undoubtedly due to this strength in psychological enquiry - a central focus motivating his artistic visions that lie somewhere between our dreams and reality.

As a predominantly figurative artist, Heng‘s stylistic focus has remained relatively unchanged since initially forging his affiliations with Parisian modernity over twenty years ago. Strongly influenced by the European ‘masters’ such as Picasso and Léger, Heng’s strength lies in his highly stylised and deceptively minimal technique. From piece to near identical piece each image reveals devoted iconographic repetition, illuminating every simple gesture within to construct Heng’s idiosyncratic and puzzling narratives.

Heng is renowned internationally and is one of Australia’s most successful figurative painters working today. He has been awarded many prizes and commissions for his art including: A Pernod Prize (Scotland) for painting, GTV Prize (printmaking); two Commissioned Print Editions (1988 & 1991) for the Print Council of Australia. His work is in the collections of Artbank, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, & New Parliament House, Canberra, among others.

Current Associate Professor in Fine Art (Part Time), Faculty of Art And Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Books
Laura Murray Cree, Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, Craftsman House, Australia, 2002
Gary Catalano, Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists, McGraw-Hill, Australia, 1997
Sasha Grishen, Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, Artist Printmakers, 1990 to 1995, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996
Alan McCulloch, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994
Catalogues
Dr Faye Glinister, Academici, Monash University & The British School at Rome, Melbourne 2005
Contrasts, (Within the Chares Sturt University Art Collection), CSU & Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW 2005
Elsewhere, (dedication to & poetry by Gary Catalano), Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2004
Jazmina Cininas, Pelt, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004
place made, (various writers), APW/National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2004
Anna Clabburn, The distress of excess, Australian Galleries Publishing, Melbourne, 2003
Anne Virgo, 'Wildlife', Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne, 2002
Rosemary Adam, 'Abracadabra', Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001
Stephen Rainbird, 'Workings Of The Mind: Melbourne Prints 1960's to the 1990's', QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld, 2000
Sasha Grishin, 'Australian Identities in Printmaking', The Australian Print Collection of the Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW, 2000
Kirsty Grant, 'Cutting Comments - Contemporary Linocuts 1995 - 1998', NETS, Victoria, 2000
Noela Stratford, 'Reciprocal Moves' Warrnambool Art Gallery, September/October 2000
Deborah Hart, 'Call of the Wild', Parliament House Art Collection, February 1996
Gary Catalano, 'Euan Heng', Australian Galleries, Melbourne, May, 1995
Ann Carew, 'Excalibur', Geelong Art Gallery, March 1993
Rodney Scherer and David Hansen, 'Indo-Eco', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, April 1991
Rosemary Adam, 'Cycle', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, October 1991
David Hansen, 'Contemporary Gippsland Artists', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, June, 1990
Lesley Duxbury, '100 x 100', Print Council of Australia, 1989
'The October Show', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, 1988
Christopher Coventry, 'The Style is the Man', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, May, 1987
David Thorp, 'Euan Heng', Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1984
Betty Clarke, 'Seven Painters: Different View Point', The University of Melbourne, June 1983
Journals
Vivien Gaston, 'Sleuth, Euan Heng', Art & Australia. Vol. 40 no 2, summer 2002
Charles Green, 'Euan Heng, Australian Galleries', Artforum International, XL No 2, October 2001
Roger Taylor, 'Euan Heng at Australian Galleries', Asian Art News, Vol. 10, No 3,May/June 2000
'Navigation', Australian Book Review, No, 221, June, 2000 (Front Cover)
'Stargazer', Australian Book Review, No, 192, July, 1997 (Front Cover)
Sheriden Palmer, 'Euan Heng: The Landscape of Art - an artist's tale', Imprint, Vol. 32 No. 3, Spring, 1997
'(D) Rover', Australian Book Review, No, 173, August, 1995 (Front Cover)
Robert Nelson, 'Euan Heng and the archaeology of the modern', Imprint, Vol. 30 No. 2, Winter, 1995
Peter Hill, 'Euan Heng', Asian Art News, Vol. 4. No. 4, July/August 1994
Renita Glencross, 'Euan Heng', Australian Style, issue. No. 1, December/January, 1993
Christopher Heathcote, 'A fresh direction', Art Monthly Australia, No. 57, March 1993
Gary Catalano, 'Something Here: an interview with Euan Heng', Art Monthly Australia, No, 55, November 1992
Robert Nelson, 'Realism in Melbourne', Agenda 20/21, November 1991/January 1992
Sheridan Palmer, 'Transitional Times', Imprint, Vol. 26 No. 3, Print Council of Australia, Spring/Summer, 1991
Rosemary Adam, 'Euan Heng', Art and Australia, Vol. 27/1, Spring, 1989
Newspaper Reviews
Megan Backhouse, 'The freedom of years', The Age, Review 16 October, 2004
Peter Hill, 'Zero Hour', Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 2003
Robert Cook, 'In the picture', The West Australian, Weekend Extra, 26 April, 2003
Victoria Hynes, 'Line Dancer', Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 28 June, 2002
Peter Hill, 'In flight with snails and shoes', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June, 2002
Lenny Ann Low, 'Euan Heng', Sydney Morning Herald, 22 ~ 23 June, 2002
Kourtney Kidd, 'Cartoon in colour', Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June, 2001
Robert Nelson, 'A strong showing' - Visual arts year in review, The Age, 27 December, 2000
Anna Clabburn, 'Trappings of success', The Australian, 17 November, 2000
Robert Nelson, 'Seeing is believing', The Age, 24 November, 2000
Peter Timms, 'Tell-tale signs of Renaissance Italy', The Age, 19 April 2000
Anna Clabburn, 'Inspired artists push the parameters', The Australian, 14 April 2000
David Bromfield, 'Arts Review', The West Australian, 5/6 February, 2000
Peter Timms, 'Not all magic in this realism', The Age, 12 August 1998
Robert Rooney, 'Magic realism tour waiting to take you away', The Australian, 14 August 1998
Sasha Grishin, 'Elegant, intimate little exhibition', Canberra Times, 7 February 1998
Neville Weston, 'Supping with the devil', The Western Review, No. 31, September 1997
Ted Snell, 'Much more to life beyond politics', The Australian, September 1997
Robert Nelson, 'Modern art for modern life's sake', Age, 11 June 1997
Josephine Allison, 'Selective approach sharpens up satire', West Australian, Perth, 11 April 1996
Robert Nelson, 'Blockbuster to schlockbuster - in 1995 the world of visual arts has taken flight' The Age, 27 December 1995
Robert Nelson, 'Cool sympathies in a bleak landscape', The Age, August 1995
Robert Rooney, 'Melbourne Art', The Australian, 11 August 1995#
Christopher Heathcote, 'Lighthearted paintings and sculpture get year into gear', The Age, 3 February 1993
Christopher Heathcote, 'Imagined worlds provide the inspiration for a new movement', The Age, 9 December 1992
David Bromfield, 'On show', The West Australian, 26 September 1992
Ron Banks, 'Pictures that tell their tale', The West Australian, Perth, WA, 29 September 1992
Christopher Heathcote, 'Unassuming pictures from an alcove at an imaginary exhibition', The Age, 3 September 1992
Christine France, 'Dark expressions of self-alienation', The Weekend Australian, August 1992
Bronwyn Watson, 'Surrealists with attitude', Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 1992
Christopher Heathcote, 'Lucid stirring pictures that linger in the mind', The Age, June 1992
Louise Dauth, 'Hard questions' Artlink, Vol. 12 No. 2, 1992
Peter Hill, 'Rich narrative behind Heng imagery', Age, September 1990
Gary Catalano, 'Blake questions today's artists', The Age, December 1989
Gary Catalano, 'Heng's deep emotional resonances', The Age, September 1989
Gary Catalano, 'When construction is the key', The Age, April 1988
Robert Rooney, 'Once an Englishman', The Weekend Australian, April 1988
Jeannie Heynatz, 'Individual look at industry', Latrobe Valley Express, July 1987
Sonia Baron, 'Print and paint artists compared', Canberra Times, 1984
Rod Carmichael, 'The look of real things', Sun, Melbourne, June 1983
Robert Rooney, 'Realism all but forgotten', The Weekend Australian, June 1983
Elizabeth Bates, 'Queensland College of Art Gallery', Art Network 11, Spring, 1983
Allan McCulloch, 'Surprises from our past', Melbourne Herald, November 1980
William Ferguson, 'Pernod winners on show', Times Educational Supplement: Scotland, 1976
Juliet Clough, 'Art', Times Educational Supplement: Scotland, December 1975
William Ferguson, 'Art' Times Educational Supplement: Scotland, October 1974
Edward Gage, 'Art Gallery', Scotsman, September 1974
Emilio Coia, 'Pictures and private enterprise', Glasgow Herald, September 1974





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2008
Semaphore, Niagra Galleries, Melbourne
E is For Elephant, Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne

2006
forthcoming exhibition at Greenhill Galleries, Perth, in November

2004
Elsewhere, 2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Australian Galleries

2003
Watercolours and Prints, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA

2002
Recent Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Sydney & Melbourne

2001
Abracadabra, Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney

2000
Watercolours and Drawings, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne, VIC

2000
Graffiti: Project Space (wall drawing), Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.

2000
Another Riddle, Greenhill Galleries and The Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, WA

1999
Works in Progress, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy

1997
Recent Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Melbourne VIC

1996
Works on Paper, Greenhill Galleries, Perth.

1995
Paintings and Prints, Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney

1995
Studio Notes, McClelland Art Gallery, Melbourne.

1992
Paintings and Watercolours, Australian Galleries, Sydney & Melbourne.
Paintings and Watercolours, Greenhill Galleries, Perth.

1991
Cycle: Paintings and Works on Paper, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell.

1990, 92, 95
Watercolours, Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1988, 89
Paintings, 70 Arden Street, Melbourne.

1987
Survey of Selected Work (1977 – 1987), Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell

1987
Drawings, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, VIC

1984, 85
Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1980
Paintings and Prints, Editions Gallery, Melbourne.

1979
Paintings and Prints, Arts Council Gallery, Canberra.

1974
76 Stirling Gallery, Stirling, Scotland.

1971
Pat Homes Memorial Prize (Drawing).

1973
BMK Travelling Award (Paris).

1974
Post-Graduate Scholarship.
GTV Prize (Printmaking).

1976
A Pernod Prize (Painting) Scotland.
Scottish Arts Council Short Term Bursary.

1984
Commissioned Member Print Edition, Print Council of Australia.

1988
Commissioned Print Edition, 100 x 100 Bicentennial Portfolio, Print Council of Australia.

1991
Commissioned Print Edition, 25th Anniversary Print Editions, Print Council of Australia.

1995
Commissioned Print Edition, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, (50th Anniversary of Migration 1945 - 1995) in collaboration with Martin King and Rob Dott, The Australian Print Workshop

Awards/ Grants

2004
ACUADS Distinguished Research Award

1999
Australia Council Residency, British School at Rome

1976
Scottish Arts Council Short Term Bursary

1976
A Pernod Prize - Scotland (painting)

1974
GTV Prize (Printmaking)

1974
Post Graduate Scholarship

1973
BMK Travelling Award (Paris)

1971
Pat Homes Memorial Prize

Public Collections
National/State
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
New Parliament House Collection, ACT
Art Bank, Sydney
Print Council of Australia Archives
Australian Print Workshop Archives
Regional
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic
Bathurst Art Gallery, NSW
Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
City of Whitehorse Collection,Vic
Dubbo Regional Gallery,NSW
Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Vic
Gladstone Art Gallery, Qld
Geelong Art Gallery, Vic
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Vic
McLelland Art Gallery, Vic
Mildura Art Centre, Vic
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Vic
Naracoorte Art Gallery, SA
New England Regional Museum, NSW
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tas
Toowoomba City Gallery,Qld
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
Warnambool Art Gallery, Vic Educational Institutions
Aquinas College, Melbourne
Ballarat University, Vic
Box Hill College of TAFE, Vic
Charles Sturt University, NSW
Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Griffith University,Brisbane,Qld
Institute for the Arts, ANU, Canberra
Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of WA
MLC, Melbourne
Monash Museum of Art, Monash University, Melbourne
Queensland University of Technology
RMIT University
Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
University of Southern Queensland
Stirling University, (Scottish Arts Council Gift), Stirling, Scotland

1999
Commissioned Print Project for Westin Hotel, Melbourne, in collaboration with the Australian Print workshop, Melbourne VIC

1999
Small Tapestries Project, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne VIC

1997
Edition and Artist Book 1997 Relief Folio, Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, ACT

1995
Commissioned Print Edition, (50th Anniversary of Migration 1945 – 1995). Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra

1991
Commissioned 25th Anniversary Print edition, Print Council of Australia

1988
Commissioned 100 x 100 Bicentennial Portfolio, Print Council of Australia

1984
Commissioned Member Print Edition, Print Council of Australia

Contrasts, (Within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection), Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Academici, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne & The British School at Rome. Italy

2004
Species, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Paper Animals, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
Impressions 2004, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Pelt, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
In the presence of all creatures great and small, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
Shell Fremantle Print Award: Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
place made, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Panorama, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

2003
Ubiquitous Beauty, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
odd, RMIT School of Art & Culture, Melbourne (Melbourne Comedy Festival)
wall \ paper, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne, (Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Program)
Wildlife, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Edition + Artist Book Survey, The Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT
People in a Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints, German Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
Workings of The Mind, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2002
Wildlife, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2002
Edition + Artist Book Survey, The Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2002
People In A Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints, German Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany

2002
Workings of the Mind, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2001/2
Landscape and Environment, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC

2000/1
People In A Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints , Cultural Centre of the Phillippines, Manila and touring: Taiwan, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

2001
15th Asian Arts Exhibition, Tainnan, Taiwan, ROC

2000
Liberty, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
Australian Identities in Printmaking, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
Cutting Comments – Contemporary Linocuts, 1995 – 1998, NETS Victoria Touring Exhibition
Reciprocal Moves, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne VIC
Works On Paper, Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1999
Eclectic Selective, Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
Pleasure, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Cabinet Works, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1998
Notations, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Orientations, New Parliament House, Canberra ACT
Gone To The Dogs, Grahame Galleries & Editions, Brisbane, QLD
From The Block, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
Primary Colours – Blue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney NSW
Magic Realism, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Decalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

1997
Knock Knock, Australian Galleries, Melbourne VIC
Figurative Forces, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, VIC
Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery VIC

1996
Call Of The Wild (Beasts and Birds from the Parliament House Art Collection) Parliament House Canberra ACT.
Australian Print Workshop (selected works 1992 – 1996) Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. VIC
Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s, APW Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Blake Prize for Religious Art, State Library of NSW, Sydney, NSW

1995/96/97
20th Annual Fremantle Print Award 1995: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA

1995
50th Anniversary Exhibition (Migration – Enriching Australia 1945 – 1995), The Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney NSW

1994
Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery, University of Victoria, Melbourne.
Mixed Impressions, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney.
Watercolour Exhibition by the artists of ROC, USA & Australia: Chung Chen Gallery, The Taiwan Art Education Institute, Taiwan, ROC

1993
Excalibur, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong.

1992
Recently Seen, McClelland Art Gallery, Melbourne.

1991
Modern and Contemporary Australian Watercolours and Gouaches, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne.
Indo-Echo, (LVAC), Morwell, Sale Regional Gallery, Sale, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
At-Tension To The Line (contemporary Australian drawing), Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
Transitional Times, 25th Anniversary Print Commissions, The Print Council of Australia, Melbourne and touring Australia.

1990
Contemporary Gippsland Artists, (LVAC), Morwell and touring Australia.

1988
The October Show, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell.
100 x 100, Print Council of Australia Bicentennial Touring Exhibition.

1985/86
The Relief Print, Dundee Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee, Scottish Arts Council Exhibition touring Scotland.
Australian Print 85 , Memphis Brooks Museum, and touring the USA.

1984
Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Harbour front Gallery Toronto, Canada, Pratt Graphic Centre, New York, USA.
Australian Printmakers (Victoria) - Aichi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Ogisu Memorial Museum of Inazawa City, Japan.

1983
Seven Painters Different View Points, University of Melbourne Art Gallery.
International Print Exhibit,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.

1977
Ten Years, Dundee Young Painters, Dundee Museum and Art Gallery, Dundee.

1976
Pernod - Scottish Art, Art Centre, Edinburgh.

1975
Trees, Stirling Gallery, Stirling,Scotland.

1974
Scottish Young Contemporaries, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow.

1973
International Print Exchange, Compass Gallery, Scotland,
Montpellier Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Illinois State University, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.

2000
Studio practice, Ireland

1994
Verdaccio Studio Residency, Tuscany Italy

1991
Artist in Residence, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus, Perth

1989
Verdaccio Studio Residency, Tuscany Italy

1985
Artist in Residence, Fremantle Arts Centre Project, Rottnest Island, WA

83-84
Artist in Residence, Helena Independent School, Perth

1980
Artist in Residence, Mundaring Arts Centre, Perth

1978
Artist in Residence, WA Department for the Arts Project, Pilbara region, WA