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Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Ivan Dougherty Gallery (1977–2009) was a contemporary art gallery that over three decades established a remarkable national and international reputation for the independence and quality of its curatorial research and exhibitions. Located from 1981 UNSW’s Paddington campus, Ivan Dougherty Gallery (IDG) was a key player within the Australian contemporary art network and forerunner to the current UNSW Galleries. IDG directors were Chris Gentle (1977–1986), Louise Pether (1987–1990) and Nick Waterlow OAM (1991–2009).
Housed within a heritage-listed old school building and comprising two high-ceilinged, white cube galleries divided by a more intimate exhibition space, IDG staged around ten exhibitions each year focussed on recent and contemporary Australian and international art of all disciplines. Exhibitions were accompanied by catalogue publications, educational material, forums and floor talks, providing information to students on campus while also encouraging discourse across the wider community.
IDG exhibitions were curated by the gallery’s curatorial staff, faculty academics, and guest curators, often including artists. Additionally, the gallery often partnered in the development and presentation of exhibition projects with major cultural organisations such as the Sydney Festival, the International Symposium of Electronic Arts and, when the Summer Olympics came to Sydney in 2000, the Olympic Arts Festival. IDG’s long-standing relationship with the Biennale of Sydney was fostered by curator and former IDG director Nick Waterlow, who was on the Biennale board and led four editions of the city-wide exhibition.
Celebrating Ivan Dougherty Gallery’s 30th anniversary in 2007, Waterlow wrote:
“Ivan Dougherty Gallery celebrates its thirtieth anniversary on 24 October, having put on around three hundred exhibitions, with over 1,250 artists from all over this country and many other parts of the world. Roughly half of these exhibitions have been initiated and curated by gallery and College of Fine Arts staff, whilst others have come from curators at the National Gallery of Australia, state and regional galleries, the Biennale of Sydney, and university museums and contemporary art spaces across Australia. The exhibitions have addressed numerous topics and encompassed every medium, with the aim of bringing to the fore art and design practice that stimulates study, research, teaching and learning not only for the College and University but for the broader public of all ages. The gallery provides a unique resource … working as a laboratory where ideas are tested and disseminated through the rigours of an exhibition.”
In the early 2000s – in response to a desire for larger and more ambitious exhibition projects – IDG senior curator Felicity Fenner initiated an architectural competition to explore the feasibility of expanding the gallery’s footprint on the Paddington campus. Having secured a major federal government grant, IDG closed from 2010 to make way for a three-year campus redevelopment led by former faculty dean Ian Howard, with the new UNSW Galleries launched in 2013. The old IDG building has since become a research and teaching facility.
Past IDG
2009
Works by recent studio artists, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
A collection of works from the COFA Art Collection.
New media art that examines aesthetic responses to modern-day disasters.
What happens when 'inspiration' meets application?
Contemporary ceramicists, engaging with the metaphor of the Silk Road.
The 17th Biennale of Sydney
A fundraising exhibition by Papunya Tjupi artists.
Moving image works exploring the political and cultural history linking Australia and the United...
Recent works that explore the legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency.
2008
Eighteen of the College of Fine Arts' best-known graduates.
An exhibition of contemporary Chinese drawings.
Bringing together paintings from 1917-1930.
A re-creation of Ralph Balson’s landmark 1941 exhibition.
Investigate the unimaginary and explore the unique qualities of its terrain.
A range of contemporary art projects occurring at the interface of art and architecture.
Works by 43 artists from Arts Project Australia.
A contemporary collection of prints from China and Australia.
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2007
Found objects, video and photo media artworks by Lebanese and Australian artists.
Work by nine Australian and international artists exploring intimacy.
Paintings and prints showcase the depth of talent in Papunya.
12 Australian based Asian artists whose works shows influences from their ethnic and cultural...
Works that question the ubiquitous means-end rationality of design’s role in the production/...
Tactile Imagination emerges from the cluster’s focus on practice-led research and...
Five x Five is selection of works by five curators working at Ivan Dougherty Gallery...
Intergration, explores the nature of objects presents the work of twelve nationally and...
The 2007 COFA Postgraduate Summer Program is a month of quick turn around exhibitions by...
2006
The Everlasting World of Martin Sharp presents a collection of paintings from 1948 till...
For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, originated with Dinah and Michael...
Chinese Whispers is an exhibition by recent MFA and Phd graduates from COFA who...
Re-Frame exhibits designers, artists and craftspeople whom draw attention to values...
Home Ground explores the concept of home ground as equivocal, entirely dependent on...
From the Edge is an exhibition exploring the notion of identity, place and indigeneity...
The 2006 COFA Postgraduate Summer Program is a month of quick turn around exhibitions by...
2005
An exhibition of Masters students from COFA.
Works by various artists responding to the remote lands around Fowlers Gap.
Curated by Zanny Begg and David McNeill
An exhibition exploring the connection between art and design in post war Sydney
A survey of twenty years of artmaking from Sydney’s Long Bay Correctional Complex.
The Australian Print Workshop from 1981-2002
A selection of new media practitioners, creating portraits who live and work in the Pacific...
'Prepossession' is an exhibition from artists of Australia, Northern Ireland and South...
The 2005 COFA Postgraduate Summer Program is a month of quick turn around exhibitions by...
2004
Various artists exhibiting to raise money for the College of Fine Arts.
Artists
Robert Ambrose Cole
Djambawa Marawili
Marawili
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How different would this country have been as Terra Alterius: Land of Another? This...
FANTASMI, exhibits the works of Dennis Del Favero from1994–2004.
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Talking About Abstraction is premised on the belief that Aboriginal painting assumes an...
Artists
Yuichi Higashiona
Callum Morton
Elspeth Pratt
Sally...
The drawing exhibition titled Double Sense (Origins in China) intended not only to...
The 2004 COFA Postgraduate Summer Program is a month of quick turn around exhibitions by...
2003
Artists
Nils Abramson
Stephen Benton
Margaret Benyon
Rudie...
Various Artists including:
Jim Anderson
Caroline Coon
Felix...
Artists
Suzanne Archer
Tom Arthur
Deborah Beck
Godwin...
Artists
Gordon Bennett
George Gittoes
Reg Mombassa
Karma...
Artists
Michele Barker + Anna Munster
Maureen Burns
Bonita Ely...
Parthenogenesis means Virgin Birth, a metaphor evocative of the particular materiality...
An Indigenous COFA Presence, is an exhibition tribute to the success and possibilities...
The 2003 COFA Postgraduate Summer Program is a month of quick turn around exhibitions by...
2002
An exhibition of Masters students from COFA's 2002 cohort. ...
A Silver Lining & A New Beginning is a celebration of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery's...
With and Without You is an exhibition that attempts to physical and perceptual...
African Marketplace is an exhibition of various artists including cultural artefacts...
Artists
Craig Andrae
Beata Batorowicz
Matt Calvert
Richard...
Artists
Li Yongbin
Wang Gongxin
Wang Jianwei
Zhang Peili...
O Soul O Spirit O Fire: Celebrating fifty years of the Blake Prize for...
The 2002 COFA Postgraduate Summer Program is a month of quick turn around exhibitions by...
2001
The Eye Still Seeks: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Artists...
2000
Works by Arahmaiani, Chila Kumari Burman, Joyce Vyvyann Lim, Judy Freya Sibayan, Mee Ping Leung...
Works by Paula Dawson, John E. Hughes, Rosemary Laing and Stelarc.
Works by Cressida Campbell, Kevin Connor, Robert Emerson Curtis, Nicholas Harding, Lloyd Rees,...
Works by Robert MacPherson and Bea Maddock
Works by Tom Nicholson, Lee Wen and Zunzi Wong
Works by various Indonesian artists
Works by Elisabeth Cummings, Suzanne Archer, David Fairbairn and John Peart.
Works by William Yang and Jeri Drucker
1999
Works by various Master of FIne Arts students
Works by Various COFA staff in celebration of the UNSW College of Fine Arts’ 25th anniversary
Works by Mark Armstrong, Rina Bernabei, Ken Cato, B. Jan Cowie, Michael Dickinson, Ken Done,...
Works by Judith Ahern, John E. Hughes, Stephen Lojewski and Harriet McKern
Toys and photographs from Africa
Works by Viktoria Marinov
Works by Various artists’ from the L'Art Brut Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland
Works by Lee Miller
1998
Works by Lyndall Adams, Angela Fitzpatrick, Liz Stops, Spirit Lines and Marg Adams
Works by Donna Brennan, Domenico de Clario, Rosalie Gascoigne, Emil Goh, Troy Innocent, Tim...
Works by Bernard Frize
Works by Tony Clark, Kaipel Ka, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Kerrie Poliness, Elizabeth Pulie,...
Works by Anthony Galbraith
Works by Ian Abdullah, Pat Brassington, Gordon Bennet, Anne Brennan, Jon Cattapan, Dennis Del...
Works by George Barker, Margaret Burns, Elizabeth Coats, Andrew Frost, Phillip George, Horst...
Works by Torsten Andersson, Curt Asker, Rolf Hanson, Inge Lovén, Mikael Lundberg, Elisabet...
Works by Nikki McCarthy and Jayne Dyer
1997
Works by Emanuel Raft
Works by John Passmore
Works by Bri (Josie Haines), Julie Freeman, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ricky Maynard, George...
Works by Virginia Coventry, Nicole Ellis, Graham Kuo, Rosemary Laing, Debra Phillips and Martin...
Works by Robyn Backen, Joan Grounds + Sherre DeLys and Simeon Nelson
Works by Jane and Louise Wilson
Works by Elizabeth Ashburn, Diana Wood Conroy, Vivienne Dadour, Dennis Del Favero, George...
Works by Ian Armstrong, Julian Ashton, George Bell, Jean Bellette, Vivienne Binns, Karna...
Works by Anne Brennan, Susan Cohn, Donald Fortescue, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Patsy Hely,...
Works by Maree Azzopardi, Jane Becker, Peter Cooley, Adam Cullen, Andy Davey, Jo Darbyshire,...
1996
Works by Christian Bonnefoi, Andrew Christofides, Max Gimblett, Peter Griffin, Alun Leach-Jones...
Works by Herbert Badham, Clarice Beckett, Rupert Bunny, Cressida Campbell, Margaret Coen, Olive...
Works by (COFA staff) Elizabeth Ashburn, Rick Bennett, Alison Clouston, Michael Dickinson,...
Works by Esko Mannikko, Boris Michailov and Peter Peryer
Works by G. W. Bot, Fiona Hall, Petr Herel, Bruno Leti, Jennifer Marshall, Bea Maddock, Murray...
Works by Godfrey Miller, Tom Bass, Lyndon Dadswell, Margel Hinder, Oliffe Richmond and Wendy...
Works by Jeff Burgess, Tim Burns, Kristin Headlam, David Keeling, Anne MacDonald, David...
Works by Graham Harwood, Zbigniew Karkowski, Mutleymedia, Orlan and Stelarc
Works by Sydney Ball, Peter Booth, Richard Byrnes, Cressida Campbell, Michael Esson, James...
1995
Works by Alexander Mackie CAE graduates from the 1970s
Works by Tom Arthur, Cressida Campbell, Peter Cooley, Michael Esson, John Firth-Smith, Fiona...
Works by [COFA staff] Elizabeth Ashburn, George Barker, Rick Bennett, Kate Briscoe, Leong Chan,...
Works by James Gleeson
Works by Helen Chadwick, Kate Davis, Anya Gallaccio, Laura Godfrey, Issacs, Emma Rushton, Jemima...
Works by Rachel Apelt, Richard Bell, Leonard Brown, Stephen Nothling, Bruce Reynolds, Luke...
Works by Clarice Beckett and Olive Cotton
Works by Angela Brennan, Matthys Gerber, Anne Graham, Graeme Hare, Tim Johnson, Stephen Little,...
1994
Works by Virginia Coventry, Nicole Ellis, Janet Laurence, Debra Phillips, Tom Roberts, George...
Works by Rashida Abdel-Aziz, Rick Amor, Ian Armstrong, Ray Arnold, Earle Backen, George Barker,...
Works by Nancy Borlase
Works by Rod Milgate
Works by Joan Brassil, Barbara Campbell, Aleks Danko, Bonita Ely, Deej Fabyc, Dale Frank, Anne...
25 Years of Performance Art in Australia: Performance Week
Venues:...
Works by Philip Guston and Tony Tuckson
Works by Davida Allen + Robert Moore, Jenny Bell + Godfrey Miller, Karen Casey + Peter...
Works by Daniel Cole, Peter Crocker, Les Dorahy, Anne Graham, Joan Grounds, Nola Jones, Felicia...
1993
Curated by Margot Osborne
Curated by Andrew Christofides and Ian Grant
Curated by Terence Maloon
Coordinator: Jennifer Hardy
Curated by Ian Burn
Curated by Hetti Perkins
Curated by A. D. S. Donaldson
Curated by Felicity Fenner and Anne Loxley
Curated by Jacqui Wajsbrem
1992
Curated by Felicity Fenner
Australian and International Video artists
Curated by Clare Williamson
Curated by Nick Waterlow
Curated by Rangihiroa Panoho
Exhibition Coordinator: Jennifer Hardy
Exhibition Coordinator: Jennifer Hardy
Curated by Sam Schoenbaum
Curated by Béla Iványi
Selected recent graduates
1991
Curated by Brian Langer
Curated by Nick Waterlow
Curated by Janie Gillespie
Curated by Belinda Webb
Students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Curated by Fiona Foley
Curated by Louise Pether and Alessio Cavalaro
Works by recent graduates of the College of Fine Arts
1990
Curated by Brian Langer
A Survey of Sculptures by artist Ari Purhonen from 1982 to 1990
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Curated by Louise...
Curated by Susan Norrie, Jacky Redgate and Clinton Garofano.
Works by Rosalie Gascoigne and Colin McCahon
8th Biennale of Sydney
8th Biennale of Sydney
Works by Peter Greenaway and Jean-Paul Gaultier
Works by recent graduates from the College of Fine Arts
Curated by Katrina Rumley and Belinda Webb
1989
Curated by Louise Pether
Lydia Schouten: A civilisation without secrets
Gary Warner: Confabulation...
Works by Adrian Hall.
works by Di Barret, Ann Wulff, and Peter Callas.
Curated by Barrett Reid
Curated by Patricia McDonald
This exhibition by Janet Laurence is the first in an ongoing series of sitespecific...
Works by recent graduates of the City Art Institute
1988
Works by students of the City Art Institute
Curated by Maggie Gilchrist
Curated by Maggie Gilchrist
Artists Ann Newmarch and David Kerr join in exhibition, exploring landscape.
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Organised by Adelaide Arts Festival
Organised by Adelaide Arts Festival
7th Biennale of Sydney
Curated by Kathrin McMiles and Virginia Hollister
Curated by Geoff Weary
Works by Selected recent graduates
1987
Curated by Belinda Webb-Jones
Works by various selected students
Curated by Rose Vickers
Works by Dominik Barbier and Hiroya Sakurai
Curated by Peter O'Neill
Students from the Budapest College of the Arts
It is this inaugural selection of works for the Sir William Debell Foundation collection of...
French/Australian artists exchange project
American photographers of the 1930s and 1940s
25 young Australian artists from Artbank's collection
Selected recent graduates
1986
Curated by Victoria Lynn
Works by students of the City Art Institute
Lithographs, etchings, relief prints and screenprints by twenty-three artists
Curated by Rod McMahon
International work from the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art
Curated by Christopher Gentle
Work by Barbara Pengelly and Sarah Bradpiece
New York artists from Betha Urdang Gallery
Works by recent graduates
1985
Work by various international artists
Works by Brian Blanchflower
Artists:
Jan Birmingham
Tanya Crothers
Darani Lewers
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This exhibition by no stretch of the imagination addresses all the themes and issues associated...
Audio visual works
An exhibition of contemporary photographic practice, exploring the diversity of photographic...
An exhibition of Eduardo Paolozzi's works from from Screenprints, Lithographs and Sculpture....
Work by selected recent graduates.
1984
Selected sculptures from students of the City Art Institute
Curated by Marie de Teliga
Various Works by Students
In arranging this exhibition, no consideration was given to the gathering of a group of works...
Martin Sharp's Luna Park Collection
Chairs designed by Le Corbusier, Carlo Bugatti, Charles Eames and others.
Students and staff from the Royal College of Art, London
5th Biennale of Sydney
Curated by Marr Grounds
Work by selected recent graduates
1983
Postgraduate and Masters students of the City Art Institute
Work by New York based expatriate artists Richard Bosman, Virginia Cuppaidge, Peter Burgess,...
Installation and performance by Kristine Rose and Jon Rose....
Future Fibre
The Collage Show
Peter Travis Collection
Attitudes to drawing
Fresh Blood
The Second Annual Mitchell Cotts Art Award for the City Art Institute
1982
Brian Blanchflower and David Jones
A selection of students work from the undergraduate and postgraduate courses which includes...
Three Artists whose work embodies the special qualitites of transperency in the three-...
Documentation/ collage/ construction
Urban images
4th Biennale of Sydney
A week of experimental audio works
The first annual Mitchell Cotts Art Award for the City Art Institute
1981
Work by Robert Owen and Mike Parr
Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education
Marino Marini: Etchings and Lithographs
Students from the School of Visual Arts, AMCAE
Frame of reference
Serigraphs
Continuum NAS 60 – AMC 80
Ceramics
8 x 2 x 3
1980
Self portrait: self image
Robert Klippel
Henry Salkauskas
Eva Kubbos
Carl Plate
Tony Tuckson
Ron...
Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education
Works by various printmaking students from Germany.
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Organised by Print Council...
Postgraduate students, AMCAE
From the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art
Organised by Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Sydney and the Art Gallery of Western Australia,...
1979
Exhibition of International Children’s Art
Selected works from the Power Institute Collection
An exhibition of thirty three photographic portraits of well known Australian artists.
Various Artists
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Organised by George Paton Galleries, The Experimental Art...
Organised for the 3rd Biennale of Sydney
Virginia Coventry
Eardley Lancaster
James Layton
Bill Mansill
George Schwarz...
1978
Ten Western Australian printmakers
Water Works
Paul Nash: photographer and painter
Recent realist images
1977
Artwork by Elwynn Lynn