EXHIBITIONS

Melbourne Art Fair 2008
New Paintings 2007
Some old... some new 2005
Don't Look Now... August 2004
Trans-Trains+Other Works August 2003
New Paintings August 2002
New Paintings Part Two April 2001
New Paintings Part One November 2000

CURRICULUM VITAE

1939 Born, Melbourne, Australia
1959 - 64 Studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1982 Visiting Artist, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1985 Artist in Residence, The University of Melbourne
1989 Artist in Residence, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2008 Lives and works in Melbourne and Sorrento

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1959 Richman Gallery, Melbourne
1963 Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1965 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1966 Gallery A, Melbourne and Sydney
1968 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1970 Gallery A, Melbourne
1973 Sweeney Reed Gallery, Melbourne
1975 Sweeney Reed Gallery, Melbourne
1975 Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Survey Exhibition, 1964-1978, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1979 Studio Exhibition, Napier Lane, Richmond, Melbourne
1982 Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1982 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Prinseneiland, Amsterdam, Holland
1982 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1983 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1983 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1986 Gareth Sansom: Paintings 1956-1986, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1986 Gareth Sansom: Recent Paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Gareth Sansom: Works of the 60's and 70's, Charles Nodrum, Melbourne
1987 Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1989 Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1990 Out of India, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1991 Recent Work, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1991 Seventh Triennale, New Delhi, India
1991 Recent Work, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1991/1992 SeventhTriennale India 1991 - Australian Tour, University of Melbourne, Canberra School of Art Gallery, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury Art Gallery, University of Tasmania Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania - Launceston, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mildura Arts Centre, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery
1993 Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
1994 Villa Delirium, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1996 West Space Inc., Footscray, Victoria; Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1997 Muka Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2000 John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2001 John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2002 John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2003 John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2004 John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2005 John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2005 The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
2007 New Paintings, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Recent work, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1962 Italian Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1963 CAS Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1964 CAS Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1964 Survey Exhibition, MOMAD, Melbourne
1965 McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1965 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1965 New Generation, MOMAD, Melbourne
1965 Decade, Storey Hall, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1965 Georges Prize, Melbourne
1966 Carnegie Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1966 The Nude in Australian Art, Gallery A, Melbourne
1966 Young Melbourne Painters, Gallery A, Sydney
1966 McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1967 Group Exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington
1967 Georges Prize, Melbourne
1968 Georges Prize, Melbourne
1970 Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art, South East Asia
1973 Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art, New Zealand
1975 Artists' Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1975 Recent Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1975 Ten Caufield Artists, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1975 Georges Prize, Melbourne
1977 Collage, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1977 Georges Prize, Melbourne
1978 Recent Acquisitions, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1978 Baldessin Memorial Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1979 Images, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1980 Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1980 Recent Acquisitions, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1981 Frame of Reference, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne
1981 McCaughy Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1981 Selections from CAE Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Spectres of our Time, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts Gallery, Adelaide
1981 Summer Exhibition 1981, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Recent Aquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1982 Collage, Regional Development Exhibition, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
1982 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1983 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1984 Vox Pop: Into the Eighties, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1984 Recent Australian Painting, A Survey 1970 -1983, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1985 Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1985 Realities Salutes Victoria's 150th Birthday, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1985 6 Drawings, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1985 Survey Exhibition, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Twenty Paintings from the 1960's, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1986 6th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1986 Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1986 Selections from RMIT Collection,RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Modern Australian Masters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 From Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 Painters and Sculptors - Diversity in ContemporaryAustralian Art, Q.A.G.Brisbane
1987 Gallery Survey, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1987 The ANZ Bicentennial Commissioning Series, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 Collage Survey, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
1988 The Ammunition Show, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1988From the Southern Cross, A View of the World c.1940-1988, Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1988 First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1988 Drawings 1970's-1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Australian Art Post - 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1988 New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988 The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1989 Imaging AIDS, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1989 Prints and Australia: Pre-Settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1989 Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1989 A Tribute to Rod Withers, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Irony Humour and Dissent, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
1989 Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Freestyle, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1990 Mass Media Mixed Media, Painters Gallery, Sydney
1990 Out of Asia, Heide Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Second Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1990 Word as Image, Art as Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Defective Models, Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Century, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1990 SPECIAL...it's been used before..., Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Off the Wall, In the Air: A Seventies Collection, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1991 Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Interpretations - The Woven Language of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop,
1991 Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, and Australian touring - 1991/97
1992 OZPOP (with Colin Lanceley, Richard Larter and Mary Moore), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1992 Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992 Works on Paper by Australian Contemporary Artists, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1992 Review 1992, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1993 On Paper, Curated by William Wright, Sherman Goodhope, Sydney, Solander Gallery, Canberra4.
1993 Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane1994 Art Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (Nov 17-21)
1993 Political Bedrooms, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Sherman Hargrave, Sydney
1993 On Paper, Solander Gallery, Canberra
1993 Still Life, Temple Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Virtuosi - Youth Music Australia Portfolio of Prints, Sherman Hargrave, Sydney1993
1993 Modern Australian Paintings 1994, Charles Nodrum Gallery,Melbourne
1993 Love and Ruin, Art and St Kilda in the Twentieth Century, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne,
1993 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1993 Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide
1993 Contemporary Australian Tapestry, Australian Embassy, Paris
1995 The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1995 Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Australian Watercolours; Selected Works from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995 Kedumba Drawing Prize, Leura, New South Wales
1996 The Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996ART at UNSW: Collecting from a University's Perspective; Selected Acquisitions 1991-95, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1996 Love, Carlisle Motel, St Kilda, Victoria
1996 AFL EXPO, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria (Curated by Robert Lindsay)
1996 Synergy, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1997 Australian Printmaking in the 90’s, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1997 Art and Furniture of the 60’s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1998 The Mecenet Collection, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
1998 The Mentors, Deans of the VCA School of Art, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Proof Positive, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1998 Australian Contemporary Art Fair
1999 Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2000 Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
2000 Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne
2000 Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2000 Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2000 Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
2001 Painting – an arcane technology, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne
2000 Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Nocturne, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery
2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery (Acquired)
2002 Nick Cave:The Good Son, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
2003 X Melbourne, Contemporary Art Space Canberra, Sydney College of the Arts
2003 The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Prize, AGNSW
2003 Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne
2003 Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
2004 Freaks, Fiends, and Folly, Bright Gallery, Melbourne
2004 The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Prize, AGNSW
2004 The Sulman Prize, AGNSW
2004 The Spirit of Football, NGV
2004 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square
2004 Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2004 Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
2005 Tales of the City, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Citibank Photographic Portrait Prize finalist, AGNSW
2005 Wynne Prize finalist, AGNSW
2005 This and Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square
2005 'I'm travellin' light'...'No, no you don't travel light' [Tindersticks, self titled 1995] - curated by Deborah Ostrow Spacement Gallery
2005 "Twentieth Century", Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2006 Snapshot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 The Tallis Foundation National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
2006 "A Man's World", curated by Frank McBride, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland
2006 Australian Drawing Part 1, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
2006 For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2007 Cross Currents: Focus on Australian art , curated by John Stringer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2007 Eye to Eye, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
2007 Bodies and Minds, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2007 From Here to Eternity (Curated by Suzie Shears), S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria; (plus, Hamilton Art Gallery; Castlemaine Art Gallery; Anne + Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, 2008; and Maitland Regional Gallery, 2009)
2007 Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2008 The Contemporary Collage: Australian collage and assemblage, John Buckley Gallery
2008 The Led Zeppelin World Tour (A Lismore Gallery touring exhibition), Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
2008 Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Melbourne
2008 Preserving the past, enriching the future ~ Hugh Williamson’s legacy, National Gallery of Victoria

COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Artbank, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales
Latrobe Valley Regional Collection, Victoria
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Monash University, Victoria
University of Melbourne, Melbourne
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Western Australian University Art Gallery, Perth
Griffith University, Queensland
Ormond College, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Ballarat College of Advanced Education, Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art (MCA, Sydney)
McClelland Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria
Horsham Regional Gallery
Price Waterhouse Coopers, Australia
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne
Dr Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Art
One Art Collection
Private collections in Australia, Europe, India, NZ, and USA

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1975 Visual Arts Board, Special Projects Grant
1976 Visual Arts Board, Travel Grant
1979 Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Tram Project
1981 Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant
1982 Visiting Artist Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1984 Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant
1986 Henry Salkauskas Art (Purchase) Award
1987 ANZ Bicentennial Commissioning Series
1989 Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission
1991 VII - The Indian Triennale, New Delhi
1993/94 Collie Fellowship, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourn
1994 Virtuosi - Youth Music Australia Portfolio of Prints
2006 John Tallis Acquisitive Award, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
2008 John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria

SELECTED REVIEWS

Hannon, Bill, "Savagery and Subtlety", The Bulletin, 25 May, 1963
Warren, Alan, "Pop Art That's Romantic Too", The Sun, 21 April, 1965
Smith, Bernard, "Provocation and Courage on Canvas", The Age, 21 April, 1965
McCulloch, Alan, "Striking Painting", The Herald, 21 April, 1965McCaughy, Patrick, "He Really Reflects World Events", The Age, 22nd June, 1966
Warren, Alan, "New Art Form in Paste and Paint", The Sun, 22nd June, 1966
Lynn, Elwyn, "Turmoil in the Void", The Australian, 30 July, 1966
Warren, Alan, "Artist Tries a Change", The Sun, 8 April, 1970
Makin, Jeff, "Sansom's Now More Dynamic", The Sun, 5 September, 1973
Makin, Jeff, "Bumps and Grinds Make a Fine Show", The Sun, 26 February, 1975
Makin, Jeff, "Gareth Has Put in the Lot", The Sun, 19 November, 1975
Gilchrist, Maureen, "From Expressionism Back to Images", The Age, 19 November, 1975
McCulloch, Alan, "Bizarre Force", The Herald, 20 November, 1975
Gilchrist, Maureen, "Compelling Sansom Offers an Electric Experience", The Age, 6 April, 1977
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Wilder Shores", The Australian, 19 April, 1977
Eagle, Mary, "Pop Goes the Easel", The Age, 12 April, 1978
Millar, Roland, "Identity Search", The Australian, 20 April, 1978
Rooney, Robert, "Sansom Looks to the Past", The Age, 21 March, 1979
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Fire and Fury in a Richmond Back Alley", The Australian, 29 March, 1979
Maloon, Terence, "Sansom is Riveting", Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March, 1982
McIntyre, Arthur, "A Very Photographic Biennale", The Age, 14 April, 1982
Rooney, Robert, "Private Obsessions Sansom's Strength", The Age, 5th May, 1982
Millar, Ronald, "The Artist Exposed", The Herald, 6 May, 1982
Holloway, Memory, "Sansom Cool and Nasty (Alert)", The Age, 27 April, 1983
Rooney, Robert, "Sansom: Escaping the Monster", The Australian, 22 March, 1986
Millar, Ronald, "Pictures That Put You on Edge...” The Herald, 21 March, 1986
Catalano, Gary, "An Array of Obscure Facts", The Age, 21 March, 1986
McDonald, John, "Non Conformist's Mad Movie of Life", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August, 1987
Lynn, Elwyn, "A Vision of Dedicated Lives", The Australian, 22 August, 1987
Allen, Christopher, "Art can help with political will and vision", Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May, 1990
Rooney, Robert, "Pilgrims of the Inner Site", The Australian, 26 November, 1988
McDonald, John, "The Good, The Twee, and Old Boofhead", Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May, 1989
Rooney, Robert, "Quirky Delicacy alongside Questionable Taste", The Australian, 1 June, 1991
Heathcote, Christopher, "Sansom Exhibition Raises Critical Problems", The Age, 29 May, 1991
Burke, Janine, "Borderline Position", Australian Society, July, 1991
Grishin, Sasha, "Sansom Opens Up in New Form", Canberra Times, 22 July, 1991
Fern, Lynette, "Even Bald Heads", Sydney Morning Herald, 23 August, 1991
Neylon, John, "Autobiographical", Adelaide Review, October 1991
Osborne, Margot, "India's Impact on the Artist", The Advertiser, 10 October, 1991
Simon, Matthew, "Sansom in India: Artist in the Flesh", Broadsheet, Vol.20 No.4, December, 1991
Bolton, Ken, "Inbuilt Bad-Faith", Artlink, Vol.II No.4, Dec. 1991
Timms, Peter, "Painting by Numbers - Melbourne Report, 1991", Art & Australia, Vol.24 No.4 1991
George Petelin, "Riches From the East", The Weekend Australian, 11 - 12 September, 1993
Allan, Christopher,"Gareth Sansom at Sherman Galleries", Asian Art News, Vol.3 No.6 Nov/Dec 1993 p.116-17
Hill, Peter, "Into The New Asia-Pacific Art Age", Asian Art News, Vol.3 No.6 Nov/Dec 1993 p.74
Nicklin, Lenore & Mendelssohn, Joanna, "Bunch of Tens", The Bulletin, 7 December, 1993
Doyle, Celestine, "Asia-Pacific Triennial", Craft Arts International, 1993-94
Grishin, Sasha, "Outstanding work meets international standards", The Canberra Times, 26 February, 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Distant Notes Compare Well", The Australian, 16 April, 1994
Heathcote, Christopher, "Seers and visionaries should not be missed", The Age, Melbourne, 11 May 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Gender benders all dressed up, but Daffy steals the show", The Australian, 5 November, 1994
Joanna Mendelssohn, "Kedumba Drawing Award", The Australian (Sydney) 13 October 1995
Robert Rooney, "Melbourne Art, TECCA", The Australian, 22 March, 1996
Robert Nelson, “Fairs and prizes enhance art’s allure”, The Age, Melbourne, 4 October, 2000
Peter Timms, “Party like there’s no tomorrow”, The Age, 6 December, 2000
Robert Nelson, “Canvassing a theory of painting”, The Age, 18 February, 2001
Anna Clabburn, “Powerful Narratives”, The Australian, 16 February, 2001
Chris Reid, “Painting: reinvigorating the arcane”, RealTime 42 April-May 2001
Jeff Makin, “Only a paper world”, Herald Sun, 8 July, 2002
“Voices of a Generation”, The Age, 3 April, 2004
Ashley Crawford, “Gareth Sansom – Don’t Look Now”, The Sunday Age - agenda, August 29, 2004
Backhouse,Megan, “Layers of agitation”, The Age, August 28, 2004
Crawford, Ashley, "Tales of the City", The Sunday Age Preview, January 30, 2005
Ashley Crawford, "This and Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing",
The Sunday Age Preview, September11th, 2005
Megan Backhouse, "Gareth Sansom", The Age Melbourne Magazine: Galleries, Issue #12 October 2005
Ashley Crawford, "Welcome to My Mind", Australian Art Collector, Issue 34, October-December 2005
Jeff Makin, "Shocker turns master", Herald-Sun, 24 October 2005
Ashley Crawford, "Gareth Sansom: Welcome to my mind" Sunday Age Preview, Dec 11, 2005
Sebastian Smee, "Works of perpetual motion to needle staid Melbourne" The Australian, Dec 15, 2005
Mixed Media, Megan Backhouse, "A win on paper" The Age, June 16, 2006
The BUZZ, "Rapt in paper", Herald Sun, June 13, 2006
Drawing on life lessons - Jeff Makin, Herald Sun, Monday, August 7, 2006
Sebastian Smee, "In the mind's eye", The Weekend Australian, Oct 21-22, 2006
Ashley Crawford, "Sansom and the post-punk intellect", The Age, July 4, 2007
Sebastian Smee, "Beauty and Brains", The Australian, October 13, 2007
Sasha Grishen, "Work of tribal elders takes centre stage", Sunday Canberra Times, October 28, 2007
John McDonald, "A palette of local colour", The Sydney Morning Herald, November 3-4, 2007
Sebastian Smee, "Forget me not", The Australian, April 5, 2008

INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST

Hannon, Bill, "Melbourne Painters, a Bulletin Portfolio", The Bulletin, 5 December, 1964
Staff Reporter, "Gareth's Easel Did Not Go 'Pop' !", The Sun, 22 April, 1965
Wright, Claudia, "Claudia Wright Meets Gareth Sansom", The Herald, August, 1968
Milson, Wendy, "Gareth Sansom - Artist Worried by his 'Symbols'", The Age, 23 April, 1977
Hawker, Phillipa, "An Artist Involved", The Age, May 1982
Staff Reporter, "A Little Bit of Ballarat", The Courier Ballarat, 7 July, 1984
Murdoch, Anna, "Sansom's Burning Urge to Paint", The Age, 8 September, 1984
Howard, Jane, "Sansom's Plan to Attack Myths About Art", The Australian, 8 May, 1985
Leonard, Christopher, "The Art of Teaching", Vogue Living, October, 1986
McIntyre, Arthur, "Sansom Tests Nature of Art", The Age, April, 1987
Lancashire, Rebecca, "Sansom Returns to Full Time Painting", The Age, 27 May, 1991
Heathcote, Christopher, "Responding to India", Art Monthly, June 1991
Lowe, Geoff, "Interview with Gareth Sansom", Seventh Triennale, India, catalogue, 1991
Stephens, Andrew, "Prints provide new adventure in creativity", The Age, 13 April, 1994
Burchall, Greg, "Drawing Fragments Together", The Age, 1 May 1996
Julian Holcroft, “Gareth Sansom”, LIKE magazine, December, 2000
Ashley Crawford, “Relaxed but not comfortable”, The Age, April 13, 2001
Ashley Crawford, “The Artist as an Older Man”, The Age, September 13, 2003
Gabriella Coslovich, "Sansom wins $100,000 art prize", The Age, February 2008

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Horton, Mervyn, Present Day Art in Australia, 1968
Bonython, Kym, Australian Painting of the Sixties, Rigby, 1970
Luck, Ross, A Guide to Modern Australian Painting, Melbourne, 1969
Bonython, Kym, Australian Painting, 1970-1975, Rigby, 1976
Smith, Bernard, Australian Painting, Oxford University Press, 1972
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Catalano, Gary, The Years of Hope, Australian Art and Criticism, 1959-1968, Oxford University Press, 1981
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Gareth Sansom", Art & Australia, December 1977
Wright, William, "Vision in Disbelief", Catalogue Essay, 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982
Burke, Janine, Self Portrait/Self Image, Catalogue Essay, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1981
Burke, Janine, Gareth Sansom, Collage, Catalogue Essay, Regional Development Programme, Australia Council, Sydney, 1982
Murphy, Bernice, "Recent Paintings in Australia", Flash Art, Milan January, 1983
Murphy, Bernice, Australian Perspecta 1983, Catalogue Essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983
Lindsay, Robert, Vox Pop: Into the Eighties, Catalogue Essay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1983
Radford, Ron, Recent Australian Painting, A Survey 1970-1983, Catalogue Essay, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1984
6 Drawing, Catalogue Essay, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1985
Lindsay, Frances, Gareth Sansom, Catalogue Essay, The University of Melbourne, 1986
Lindsay, Robert, From Field to Figuration, Catalogue Essay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987
McIntyre, Arthur, Australian Contemporary Drawing, Boolarong Publishers, 1988
Lindsay, Frances, "Antipodean Antecedents: An Accent on the Present", Catalogue Essay, Australian Biennale, 1988, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988
Szulakowska, Urszula, Alchemy and the Avant-Garde: Some Contemporary Australian Artists, Cauda Pavonis, Washington State University, U.S.A., 1988
Smith, Bernard, The Critic as Advocate, Selected Essays 1948-1988, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1989
Carroll, Allison, Out of Asia, Catalogue Essay, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
McIntyre, Arthur, Contemporary Australian Collage and it's Origins, Craftsman House, 1990
Chanin, Eileen, (Ed.) Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, 1990
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Broinowski, Alison, The Yellow Lady, Oxford University Press Australia, 1992
Carrol, Alison, "Art's Subtle Invaders", 21C-The Magazine of the Commission for the Future Winter/Spring, 1991
Drury, Nevill, Images in Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, 1992
Hall, Doug, Australia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art , Catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery, 1993
McCulloch, Alan, and McCulloch, Susan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994
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Grishin, Sasha, Contemporary Australian Printmaking: An Interpretive History, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994
Engberg, Juliana,"The Museum of Selves", Persona Cognita, Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1994
Pennings, Mark, "Images of an Emotional Game", in Hidden Treasures - A Visual History of Australian Football, Catalogue, Robert Lindsay, Melbourne, 1996
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Bala Starr &Natalie King, “Painting: An Arcane Technology”, Catalogue, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2001
Alison Barclay, “New Coat of Colour” , Herald Sun, Melbourne, 2001
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John Buckley “Nocturne”, Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery, 2002
Linda Michael, Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, MUMA, 2002
Roger Butler+Anne Virgo, ‘place made’ –Australian Print Workshop, National Gallery of Australia, 2004
Bernard Smith, Two Centuries of Australian Art from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Thames & Hudson, 2004
Bala Starr, "Welcome To My Mind - Gareth Sansom, A Study of Selected Works 1964-2005", The University of Melbourne, 2000
Anne Kirker "Dude Ranch Dada" Art Monthly, December 2006
McCulloch Alan; McCulloch, Susan and Childs, Emily McCulloch, The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2006
Julie Ewington, Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006, Queensland Art Gallery, 2007
John McDonald and Ian Lloyd, STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, 2007
Sonia Payes, UNTITLED. Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2007
"Contemporary - Art Gallery of NSW Contemporary Collection", AGNSW, 2006
John Stringer, Cross Currents: Focus on Australian Art, Catalogue, MCA, 2007
Geoff Wallis, " Eye to I, Catalogue", Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2007
Harriet Edquist, Elizabeth Grierson, "A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind - A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University", RMIT, 2008
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Ashley Crawford, "Gareth Sansom", Australian Art Review, August - October 2008

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