"He is a person with an immense and searching intellect. An intellect located just behind the eye, and what an eye. An eye with perfect pitch, an eye that can read light like a composer following notes on a music score; parts distinct - rhythms clear - everything observed."
excerpt from speech by Bela Kotai at the Artsource 2010 Lifetime Achievement Awards.
...plus numerous corporate and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, UK, France.
Bond, Anthony
Form, Image, Sign – Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, no.3
Perth, AGWA, 1984
Bonython, Kim
Modern Australian Painting 1950 – 1975
Adelaide, Rigby, 1980
Bonython, Kim
Modern Australian Painting 1975 – 1980
Adelaide, Rigby, 1980
Chapman, Barbara
The Rural & Industries Bank of Western Australia Art Collection
Perth, R & I Bank, 1988
Contemporary Australian Drawing 1978
Perth, WA Art Gallery, 1978
Germaine, Max
Artists and Galleries of Australia
Sydney, Boolarong Publications, 1984
Germaine, Max
Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand
Sydney,Lansdowne Editions, 1979
Haynes, George
Kokoshka’s Painting
London, Chelsea School of Art, 1961
Hawthorn, Bill
Some Contemporary Western Australian Painters and Sculptors
Nedlands, Apollo Press, 1982
Horton, Mervyn
Present Day Art in Australia
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1969
Jasas, Richard
CRITICS CHOICE
Perth, AGWA, 1982
McCaughy, Patrick
Ten Australians: Europe 1974 – 1975
Sydney, Visual Arts Board, Australian Council for the Arts, 1975
McCulloch, Alan
Encyclopaedia of Australian Art
2nd Edition, Hawthorn, Hutchinson of Australia, 1984
Mason, Murray
Contemporary Western Australian Painters and Printmakers
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1979
Millar, Ronald W
Civilised Magic: An Interpretive Guide to Australian Paintings
London, Thames and Hudson, 1975
Small, Alison
Art and Artists of Australia
South Melbourne, MacMillan, 1981
The Foulkes Taylor Years
Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, 1982
Whittle, Bertram
Western Australian Artists,1974 : Paintings and Sculptures
Perth. Art Gallery of WA 1974
Robert Lindsay
Australian Paintings and Tapestries
From the collection of National Australia Bank
Janet McKenzie
Drawing in Australia
MacMillan Australia, 1986
George Haynes: A Survey – 3 Decades of Painting
Art Gallery of WA, 1988
John Scott / Richard Woldendorp
Landscapes of Western Australia
Perth. Aeolian Press, 1986
John Stringer / Richard Woldendorp
Artists In Residence
Perth: Sandpiper Press 1995
Artist George Haynes at Work
Perth: WA College of Advanced Education, 1986
George Haynes: Transcript of Interview With Hazel de Berg
Oral History Collection
National Library of Australia, Canberra, 31 May 1965
Interview With George Haynes, Australian Painter
Sound recording / interviewer Barbara Blackmaan
National Library Oral History Program, 22 January, 1986
George Haynes : Ten Australians
ABC film series, 33 minutes, 1974
26 Nov 2011
Klee talked of taking a line for a walk.
I am taking a dot for a dance.
22 Nov 2011
Tom Stoppard, the great English playwright wrote a radio play years ago called - Artist Descending a Staircase. The play was about modern art and one of the characters during the play says,
of every thousand people there’s:
nine hundred doing the work,
ninety doing well,
nine doing good,
and one lucky bastard who’s the artist.
I am here to explain why we are fortunate that George Haynes is that lucky bastard.
This award goes a little way to awakening our recognition of his lifetime contribution to the visual arts in WA.
Every society honours its resident conformists and its absent troublemakers.
As George is plainly with us, this honour means that somebody thinks he is no longer a troublemaker.
George has been with us, in Australia, for nearly forty years. We have become used to having him around, though lately he conceals himself behind his work.
Don’t be fooled. He is still the rebel he ever was, seldom even ordinarily respectable and usually doing what he can to keep body and soul apart.
22 Nov 2011
This game of the territorial resembles GO
But with the added factors of Tone, Temperature, and Chroma (the intensity and hue of a colour).
Go becomes 3 dimensional and one has stumbled on
THE EVERLASTING PAINTING
22 Nov 2011
Polonius, poor old devil, has baled up Hamlet in the library and is intent on finding out if he has gone completely mad –
H. Do you see yonder cloud that’s in the shape of a camel?
P. By the mass, and it is like a camel in deed.
H. Methinks it is like a weasel.
P. It is backed like a weasel.
H. Or like a whale.
P. Very like a whale.
- I have tried to depict the cloud as seen through Polonius’s rheumy eyes, and to confuse matters it is reflected in Elsinore’s moat, and the moon is scudding by.
born Kisumu, Kenya
1938sent to school in England
1951studied painting, Chelsea School of Art, London
1958-62arrived in Australia, July
“Drawings and Paintings by George Haynes” – PatchTheatre, Perth
“Perth Prize” – Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA)
“Paintings From the West: 14 West Australian Painters” – Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne
exhibited annually at the Skinner Galleries, Perth
teaching painting and drawing at Perth Technical College, West Australian Institute of Technology, Curtin University, Claremont School of Art, UWA summer schools, Albany summer schools, Darlington studio summer schools, Kalgoorlie College
1964-85Darlington Annual Arts and Crafts Fair
1964-70“Australian Painting: 19th and 20th Centuries” touring New Zealand
1964“John McCaughey Memorial Prize Competition” Art Gallery of NSW
1965“Perth Prize For Drawing” AGWA
1966-79received Painting Prize, University of WA
1966founding member CATS – Children’s Activity Time Society, Perth
1967assisted by Marcus Collins constructed the first geodesic dome in WA
“George Haynes Paintings” Watters Gallery, Sydney.
“Perth Prize for Drawing – International” AGWA
“Invitation Exhibition” WAIT
“Sir William Angliss Memorial Art Prize” Melbourne. Sreceived prize for ‘Deep End’
“Georges’ Invitation Art Prize” Georges Gallery, Melbourne
“George Haynes” South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
“3rd Invitation Exhibition” WAIT
six month residency, Power Bequest Studio, Paris
1972
“West Australian Artists 1974”
“Young Contemporaries” Undercroft Gallery, UWA
“Ten Australians” circulated over two years with showings in Paris, Stuttgart, Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome. ‘Red Nude’ featured on poster.
received Murdoch University Art Prize. Perth
“Perth Prize for Drawing – International” AGWA
Gallery G, Perth opening group show
“George Haynes” Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
“George Haynes, Paintings” Solander Gallery, Canberra.
“Ten West Australian Artists” AGWA
“George Haynes / Anne Maughan / Trevor Vickers” UWA Undercroft
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1977exhibited with Greenhill Galleries, Perth and Adelaide
“Perth Survey of Drawing: Contemporary Australian Drawings” Art Galleries of WA, Queensland, and New South Wales.
Six months’ residency in the Pilbara, WA Arts Council
elected President, Artists’ Union, Perth but later resigned
appointed WA representative, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
“Australian Painters and Printmakers” Fremantle City Gallery
“George Haynes – Paintings and Drawings” Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1981“An Art Auction of George Haynes Paintings and Drawings” PIFT, Freo
two month visit to Thailand
founding member of Nexus (later Praxis)
‘Critic’s Choice’ AGWA
“The Joe and Rose Skinner Bequest” Undercroft Gallery, UWA
opened new studio in Walker Street, South Fremantle, with an exhibition
“Festival of Perth Invitation Drawing Award” received the award
“Figures and Faces Drawn from Life” Heide Gallery, Melbourne
198315 months teaching in Kalgoorlie
“Form, Image. Sign” AGWA
“Fremantle Prize for Drawing” received the prize
“Festival Exhibition” His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth
“Festival of Perth Invitation Drawing Award” received the award
“Artists Self-Portraits” Fremantle Arts Centre
“George Haynes Drawings and Linocuts” Fremantle Arts Centre
“Mandorla Art Prize” New Norcia
founding member Margaret River Arts Foundation
“Contemporary Australian Watercolours and Drawings” David Jones Gallery Sydney
Fremantle Prize for Drawing
“BP Australia Art Award” AGWA
“Fremantle / Newport Exchange” Fremantle Arts Centre & Newport, USA
“The Fremantle Dozen” Fremantle Art Gallery
received WA Creative Development Fund Grant
“George Haynes Drawings” David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
“George Haynes: A Survey, 3 Decades of Painting” AGWA
three months’ painting trip to the Kimberleys
six months drawing / painting trip to France
1991“The Draughtsman’s Contract” – inaugural Mark Howlett Foundation Fellowship
1992six month painting trip to UK
1993six month painting trip to New Zealand
Jonathon Grant Galleries, Auckland
exhibited with Perth Galleries
exhibited at The Works, Fremantle
2001-2-5exhibited in Spearwood studio
2003-4-5Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Cottesloe, received the Judges’ Award 2006 Cottesloe
2006-7-8exhibited at The Moore’s Building, Fremantle
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS
with JANE martin
Artsource Lifetime Achievement Award
Bela Kotai’s speech at the Artsource 2010 Lifetime Achievement Awards
2010“Out of the West’ - National Gallery of Australia - group show.
Exhibition at The Moore’s Building, Fremantle
Exhibition at the Moore’s Building, Fremantle
2011exhibition - Sussex Street, Spearwood
A SHOW OF SMALL PAINTINGS THROUGH THE SEASONS
-Summer / Autumn 2013
exhibition at Sussex Street Studio
New Works Being Shown In May
exhibition at Sussex Street studio
A SUMMER HARVEST - Recent Paintings From the UK 2015
Retrospective Artist at Darlington Arts Festival 2015