Ross Laurie lives and works on a cattle and sheep property farmed for generations by his family at Walcha, on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. This landscape of his birth and memory infuses his art and remains its fundamental inspiration.
Laurie’s work is concerned with questions of pictorial space, colour and form. His drawings do not capture a ‘view’ in the traditional sense, but rather try to express a sense of the landscape as it is felt and experienced.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 After Storms And Rain King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
2020 Dry at Walcha King Street Gallery on William
2018 New Paintings and Works on Paper King Street Gallery on William
2016 New Paintings and Works on Paper King Street Gallery on William
2014 New Painting King Street Gallery on William
2011 Paintings and Works on Paper, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2010 Paintings and Works on Paper, Damien Minton Gallery
2009 Damien Minton Gallery
Moree Plains Regional Gallery
2008 Damien Minton Gallery
2007 Damien Minton Gallery
2006 Damien Minton Gallery
2005 Damien Minton Gallery
Wrestles with Landscape, New England Regional Art Museum
2002 Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle
1999 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1998 Old School Gallery, Walcha
1997 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1996 Coventry Gallery, Sdney
1995 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1994 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
2021 'The Big Picture Show' King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
'Gorge Country' New England Regional Art Museum
2019 'Inside/Outside' King Street Gallery on William
'Abstract 19’ King Street Gallery on William
2018 Salient, Australia Club Melbourne
Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Salient – the Western Front Centennial Commemoration, New England
Regional Art Museum; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery,
Anzac Memorial Art Gallery, Sydney
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Tweed Regional Gallery
2017 Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
2016 The Wynne Prize Exhibition Art Gallery New South Wales
Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery,
Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Vic
Paint my Place Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 WINNER Paddington Art Prize
The Piano has been Drinking [Not Me] Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
2014 Drawing out: Dobell Prize for Drawing Art Gallery NSW
2013 Walcha: City of Art Walcha Gallery of Art, NSW
'Last but not Least', King Street Gallery on William NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
Packsaddle NERAM, Armidale, NSW
Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
2012-14 In Two Art S.H. Ervin Gallery, travelling
2012 Not the Way Home: 13 Artists Paint the Desert S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, and touring nationally
Melbourne Art Fair with Damien Minton Gallery and Artist Profile stands
Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
Big Picture Show King Street on William Gallery
Landscape Show Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Five Bells Damien Minton Gallery
Dobell Prize for Drawing AGNSW
2011 Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
Works on Paper Award Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing AGNSW
Melbourne Art Fair 2010
2009 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea,
Works on Paper Award New England Views NERAM, Armidale, NSW
Defiance Gallery Sydney, ‘Same Place, Many Views’
Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
2008 Melbourne Art Fair Damien Minton Gallery
Paddington Art Prize (winner of the COFA Print Award)
2008 North South East West Damien Minton Gallery
2007 Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
2006 Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
Regional Encounters Tamworth City Gallery
Walcha – City of Art, Gallery Karlovy Vary, Ostrov, Czech Republic
Same Place Different Views Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005 The Year in Art S.H. Ervin Gallery
(Going) Out There Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW
Country Energy Art Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery and NSW Parliament House
2004 England Picture NERAM, Armidale, NSW
Hazelhurst Work on Paper Award Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
2003 Surface Memories Tamworth City Gallery
Country Energy Art Prize, NERAM, Armidale, NSW
Walcha – City of Art, New Contemporaries Gallery, Sydney
2000 Melbourne Art Fair Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
1999 Coventry Diary Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1998 Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
1995 Salon des Refusès S.H. Ervin Gallery
1991 Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney
1989 Drawings William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1988 New Art Melbourne Ivan Dougherty, Sydney
Gallery Artists Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
1987 Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
1982 New England Artists Tamworth City Gallery
2004 Walcha Central School, Walcha
2001 Walcha Preschool Inc, Walcha
1998 Public Space Walcha Shire Council, Walcha Awards
2015 Winner, Paddington Art Prize
2010 Winner, Kings School Art Prize
2008 Paddington Art Prize (COFA Print Award)
1999 Winner, Norvill Prize for Landscape Painting, Murrurund
Artbank
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Benalla Regional Gallery
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
The Laverty Collection
La Trobe University, Melbourne
The Macquarie Collection
Maitland Regional Gallery
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Gallery
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
NRMA, Sydney
State Bank Victoria
Tamworth City Art Gallery
