Mark Ward
1944 Born Sydney
1960 – 63 Painting & Drawing Diploma National Art School, Sydney
1979 – 81 Diploma of Infants / Primary Teaching, Sydney Teachers College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 FORM Studio & Gallery Queanbeyan NSW
Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre Moruya NSW
2015 Narek Galleries Tanja NSW
2012 Narek Galleries Tanja NSW
2012 Danks Street Waterloo Sydney
2009 GIG Gallery Sydney
2007 GIG Gallery Sydney
1998 James Harvey Gallery Sydney
1994 New England Regional Art Museum Armidale NSW
1991 King Street on Burton Darlinghurst Sydney
1989 Woolloomooloo Art Gallery Sydney
1985 Studio Exhibition 100 Hay Street Leichhardt Sydney
1982 Hogarth Gallery Sydney
1972 Macquarie Galleries Canberra
1971 International House University Sydney
1968 Woolloomooloo Art Gallery Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Tracks South Durras NSW
Small Sculpture Prize Jervis Bay Arts Festival
2016 Frequent Flyers Exhibition South Durras NSW
Basil Sellers Art Prize Finalist Moruya NSW
2015 River of Art Exhibition Narooma NSW
Silk Cut Lino Award Melbourne
2014 Basil Sellers Art Prize Finalist Moruya NSW
2013 River of Art Exhibition Narooma NSW
2010 The Footy Show Bega Valley Regional Gallery Bega NSW
2009 Sculpture Show Global Gallery Sydney
2008 Shades of Grey Wilson Street Gallery Sydney
2006 Linden Postcard Show Contemporary Art Centre St Kilda Victoria
Name Dropping Cicada Press Editions Sydney
2005 Sculpture X Sea Sydney
2004 Woodworks James Harvey Gallery Sydney
2003 Sculpture X Sea Sydney
2001 Vietnam Voices Melbourne & touring nationally
Sculpture X Sea Sydney
Fishers Ghost Open Art Award Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery Sydney
Animals & Birds in Art Lewers Regional Gallery Emu Plains Sydney
Sculpture from the Sea Campbelltown & Hazlehurst Galleries Sydney
1999 Sculpture X Sea Sydney
COLLECTIONS
NGA Canberra
NSW State Parliament House Sydney
New England Regional Art Museum Armidale NSW
Morwell Regional Art Gallery Victoria
Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery Sydney
Art Bank Sydney
Lady Ethel Nock Sculpture Collection 2002 presented Defiance Gallery Sydney
Eurobodalla Shire Council Moruya NSW
Private collections Australia & overseas
AWARDS
2006 Works on Paper Prize Glebe Art Show Sydney
2004 Works on Paper Prize Glebe Art Show Sydney
2002 Works on Paper Prize Glebe Art Show Sydney
2001 Glebe Art Show (highly commended) Sydney
2000 Hutchins Art Prize (finalist) Hobart Tasmania
1999 Pat Corrigan Artists Grant NAVA
1996 Fishers Ghost Open Art Award (shared) Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery
Gold Coast Sculpture Award (scholarship prize) Gold Coast Queensland
1989 Drummoyne Print Prize Drummoyne Sydney
1986 Berrima Print Prize NSW
1968 Woollahra Open Art Prize (shared) Sydney
CITATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Arts Review, Toy Box: Mark Ward by Peter Haynes Canberra Times p. 18 Wednesday 20 February 2019
Perry, Michelle Printed in Australia, Mark Ward p104-107, 10 Group P/L, 2016
Catalogue essay Ruminations,Tom Carment GIG Gallery August 2009
Catalogue essay The Real & the Fugitive, Cathy Peake GIG Gallery August 2007
Catalogue essay Vietnam Voices, Joanna Mendelssohn p34 2000
Catalogue essay Playing House, Alison Clark James Harvey Gallery October 1998
Armidale Express, Arts review 9 September 1994
Sydney Morning Herald, Arts Review Bronwyn Watson 13 November 1992
Sydney Review, Jacques Delaruelle November 1992
The Weekend Australian, Art Review by Elwyn Lynn 1 – 2 October 1989
Australians – A Historical Dictionary, 11 volume series Australians: A Historical Library p334
pub Fairfax, Syme & Weldon 1987