Biography

1931         Born Scotland

1948-53   Attended Edinburgh Collage of Arts

 1953       Young British Artists Museum of Modern Art New York. 

1954         Young Contemporaries Exhibition, London

1954-55   National Service  

1955         Awarded Abbey Minor Rome Scholarship

1957         British School at Rome

                  Societe Francais with Eardley and Michie

1958         Exhibited at Edinburgh Festival

                  57 Gallery George Street Edinburgh. The review entitled “An Artist to buy now” in The Weekly Schotsman of 19/6/58  referred to  the dozen works as painted after a winter in Sardinia.

                  Chalmers-Jarvies Royal Scottish Academy Award

1959         Fellow of Salzburg School of American Studies      

1960         Exhibited at Edinburgh Festival

                 Touring Exhibition of Watercolours and Gouaches by Carmichael, (Alexander) McNeish (Alistair) Park and ( Eric) Redmond: Scottish Arts Council 

                   Exhibited with Albert Irwin and Alexander McNeish at Galerie Im Griechenbeisl

1962         Married Yvonne Kirkus 24/3/62

                  Exhibited at Edinburgh Festival

1964           Exhibited at Cambridge, Arts Council of Great Britain

                   Exhibited at Scottish Gallery Edinburgh

                   Head of  Art Foundation Department Bradford School of Art

1965           First son Bethune born

1966           Exhibited at Edinburgh Festival

                   Daughter Zoe born

1967           British Drawing Bradford Art Gallery

1968           Exhibited at Edinburgh Festival

                    Younger son Rupert born

1969            Douglas and Foulis Gallery, Edinburgh  Solo show

1969           Solo exhibition at Edinburgh Gallery West, Los Angeles

1970           JWT 947 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles

1970-1973 Head of School of Painting, Birmingham Polytechnic

1971            Arcadia Gallery, Edinburgh Festival.  Group show with Peter Stitt, Bill Crozier and John Bellany

                  Solo show Oaklands Gallery San Francisco

                   One-Man show Douglas and Foulis Gallery Edinburgh  

                   Solo show Galerie Riehentov, Basle, Switzerland 

1972           Solo show Richard Demarco Gallery

                   25 Years of British Painting UNESCO

1974           Migrated to Australia

1975          Head of School of Art Gordon Institute of Technology Geelong   (until 1977)

                  Appointed art critic of the Geelong Advertiser

                   Solo Exhibition at Bartoni International Gallery. Works included The Age of Innocence Series.

1976           Georges Invitiation Prize

1976-1994   Principal lecturer Deakin University Geelong

1978            Capital Permanent Prize

1979            Capital Permanent Prize

1980             Geelong Art Gallery Survey No.2 ( With David Turner) . Exhibited Buckley and Terminator Series as well as St Georges River Drawings. 

                   Capital Permanent Prize

1982           Exhibited Melbourne University Survey Exhibition

                   1983 Winner of Gold Coast Prize

1984           Appointed art critic of Melbourne Sun (until 1988)

                   Invited Retrospective Exhibition Festival of Perth. Exhibition comprised Healesville and Lascivious Rock Series. 

                   Divorced from Yvonne Kirkus 24/5/84 

1985            Appointed Visiting Fellow, Tokyo City University of The Arts

1986          Solo Exhibition Realities Gallery Melbourne . Pachenko Paintings

1988          Became an Australian Citizen 6/10/88

                  Australian Bicentenary Celebrations, Edinburgh Festival: An Antipodean Decade 1978-88

1989          Solo exhibition Macquarie Gallery Sydney

1989          Solo Exhibition, William Jackson Gallery, Cork Street London

1990          Exhibited Chicago Art Fair 

1991           Exhibited Los Angeles Art Fair

                   Residency Internationale Cite des Arts

1992           Residency at Internationale Cite Des Arts, Paris. Completing a series  of watercolour heads Rod called Le Profile Perdue

1993           Solo Exhibition Tolarno, Fitzroy street Melbourne

1997           Post-Allegory Show Brim-Brim Gallery Geelong, showing Transcription paintings

1998           Solo show at Flinders Lane Melbourne Showing Stendhalismo paintings

                    Residency Internationale Cite des Arts

1999           Solo show Qdos.  Exhibition of a La Mode paintings and Le Profile Purdue

                    Married Heather Stewart 3/12/99

2000           Solo show post-Modernism at Brougham Gallery Geelong.