Jeff Rigby CV
Born Sydney, 1948. Exhibited since 1975. He was a part time teacher of painting and drawing in NSW colleges of TAFE from 1976 until 2003 and a part time teacher in the Drawing Department, National Art School, Sydney from 2001 to 2018. Artist Trustee of the Kedumba Collection 2014-2022
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Robin Gibson Gallery “ Light, landscape and Architecture”
2021
Robin Gibson Gallery. “New Work 2020 -2021”
2020
Bakehouse Gallery Patonga
2019
Robin Gibson Gallery “ A Constant Vision” 1976- 2019”
2017
Robin Gibson Gallery “ Inside Out”
2016
Robin Gibson Gallery “ Sunlight and shadow
2015
Bakehouse Gallery, Patonga
Gallery Bodalla
No 47 Rylestone
2013
Robin Gibson Gallery “Spaces and Structures”
2012
No 47 Rylestone
2010
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2007
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Bakehouse Gallery Patonga
Gallery Bodalla
2006
Newman-White Gallery Lithgow
“Places of Industry; Where workers Unite” The Geo Centre , Broken Hill
2005
No 47 Rylstone “ Small Works from the Central West
2004
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2002
Hardware Fine Art. “ Sydney”
2001
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2000
Hardware Fine Art, Sydney
1999
UTS Gallery, Sydney “Men At Work – On Site”
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1996
Marie Jo Voigt Fine Art, Lilienfeld, Katoomba
1995
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1994
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1993
Macquarie Galleries Sydney Panoramas
1993
Curtin University – Perth, Bunbury, Geraldton, WA
“Metro Plaza, Men at Work” tour of WA
1992
Solander Gallery, Canberra
1991
Macquarie Galleries
“Metroplaza, Men at Work”
1989
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1988
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1987
Macquarie Galleries Sydney The Harbour City
1986
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1985
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1983
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1981
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1978
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1976
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1976
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1975
Bonython Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2023
The Dobell Drawing Prize, NAS
Selected for the Dobell Drawing Prize travelling exhibition.
2022
Artists4 Ukraine, See St Gallery Meadowbank TAFE
2018
Class Act 2
See St Gallery Meadowbank TAFE
2017
“The Year of the Rooster”
Robin Gibson Gallery
2016
Robin Gibson Gallery
2015
Robin Gibson Gallery “Horse Feathers”
Berrima Art Space Opening Exhibition
Robin Gibson Gallery Simply Red
2014
Australian Society of Marine Artists, Sydney
Mitchell Library Sydney
Robin Gibson Face 2 Face
NAS Drawing Dept Exhibition Abbottsleigh
2013
Robin Gibson Clip Board Show
Robin Gibson Face 2 Face
Australia Marine Artists Exhibition National Maritime Museum
2012
Kedumba Drawing Acquisition Exhibition
“Picturing the Great Divide” Blue Mountains Cultural Center
2007
“Same Place, Different View”, Defiance Gallery
2006
ASMA Exhibition, The National Maritime Museum
AWI Exhibition, Artarmon Gallery
Drawing Exhibition, Defiance Gallery
ASMA annual Exhibition, Brisbane Maritme Museum
AWI annual Exhibition, Mosman Regional Gallery
2005
Drawcard, National Art School, Sydney
Drawing Exhibition, Defiance Gallery
Landscape Exhibition, Defiance Gallery
AWI Annual Exhibition, Gosford Regional Gallery,
ASMA Annual exhibition, Mosman Regional Gallery
2004
Landscape, Penrith Regional Gallery
“When workers Unite” Braemar Gallery Springwood
Drawcard, National Art School, Sydney
2003
“Railway Images”, Jeff Rigby and Cliff Simcox, Gallery Lane, Leura
2002
“Year Of the Outback” Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Australian Watercolour annual exhibition, Mosman Regional Gallery
2001
Australian Watercolour Institute, Wagner Gallery, Sydney
Works on paper, Hazlehurst Gallery
2000
Kedumba Drawing Prize , Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
1998
Gallery Lane, Leura
Michael Kempson, etchings; Jeff Rigby, drawings,
Australian Watercolour Institute annual exhibition, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1997
Salon des Refusés, S .H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Australian Watercolour Institute annual exhibition, S H Ervin Galley, Sydney
1996
Site and Sensibility, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1994
“Paint on the Tracks” S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1993
Jocelyn Maughan, Robin Norling, Jeff Rigby, The Manning Regional Gallery
Observing Sydney, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1991
“Green Art” S. H. Ervin Gallery. Sydney
“From the City to the Fringes, Holdsworth Gallery
1990
Lake Mungo Michael Winters, Jeff Rigby, Macquarie Galleries
1989
9 × 5 Art Met Gallery, Sydney
1988
9 × 5 by mail, Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise
1985
Artists Salute Lloyd Rees, Macquarie Galleries
1983
On Sight AGNSW Metropolitan travelling art show
Recent Australian Painting A survey: 1970-1981 Art Gallery of South Australia
1982
Barossa Valley Touring exhibition to NSW Regional Galleries
1981
McCaughy Invitation Prize, National Gallery, Melbourne, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1978
Landscape and image Australian Art of the 70’s Directors’ Council and Dept. of Foreign Affairs. Travelling exhibition organised by Australian Galleries Directors and the Department of Foreign Affairs
1975-1976
Australian Realist Painters Art Gallery of South Australia
1975
Young Contemporaries, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Young Painters Art of the Real, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Collections
State Library of NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Manly Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
UTS Collection
National Capital Development Commission
The High Court of Australia
Australiana Fund Collection
Rockhampton Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
IBM Australia
NRMA
Art Bank
Cruthers Collection
Lend Lease
Sydney University Club
Sydney City Council
Kedumba Collection
Bibliography
Sydney the Harbour City, Rigby J and Kingsmill, J. Pierson, Sydney, 1988
Borlase, Nancy: Sydney Scene, Art and Australia, Vol 12, No. 4 April June 1975
Borlase Nancy: Art, The Young Hopefuls, The Bulletin. August 16th. 1975
Bonython, Kym: Modern Australian Painting: Survey, 1970 80 Rigby Ltd.
Drury Neville: New Art Two: Craftsman House, 1988
Chanin, Eileen: Contemporary Australian Painting. Craftsman House, 1990.
Skinner Land Out of Time
Australian Watercolour Institute; 75th Anniversary Beagle Press
Australian Watercolour Institute Peter Pinson, Jean Campbell & Peter Laverty
“Land before Time” Skinner
Publications
Oz Arts No 13 2018 Jeff Rigby “ Inside Out”
Oz Arts No 9 2016 Jeff Rigby “ Fires On: The Circumstances Surround the Paining of
Arthur Streeton’s Fires On “
Oz Arts No 7 2015 Jeff Rigby “ Painting and Memory”
Oz Arts No 3 2014 Jeff Rigby “Cliff Simcox; Italian Visions of Engineering and
Architecture”