GARRY
McDOUGALL
Garry McDougall
Selected biog, for the Visual Arts
Early Interest in Visual Arts
1973 Graduate, B Economics, Grad Dip (Social Sc.), Newcastle.
1973 Art Teacher, NSW
1973-6 Travel: SE Asia, Indian subcontinent, Middle East, Europe, UK.
Exploring various architecture, Visual, Performing and Lit Arts.
1976 Return to Oz.
1977-78, Art College, Sydney C.o.Arts
1979 PostGrad, New Art Forms, Alexander Mackie CAE
1978 Contrasituations, Two-man show, Sydney
1982 Newsagency, One-man shows, Sydney and Melbourne.
1979-2000 Various minor exhibitions
1980-1991 WEA Tutor, various Photography courses
1984-7 P/t lecturer, Visual Arts, UWS
Radio Interviews: 2BL/702 (numerous), Radio Newcastle, 2UE (several), 3AW. Public Readings/Speaker/ Guest Lectures: NSW Art Gallery, NSW Writers Centre, various Lions, Apex events, various Local Historical Societies, Newcastle and Western Sydney universities.
An Interruption
1988- 2007 Inhibited by proprietorship, Tourism Business
Included grant, involving first wilderness lodge, Blue Mtns
Included extensive television and radio exposure, including
Sixty Minutes, Great Outdoors, News (Newcastle) and Getaway.
Design and production of Travel Product magazines.
1992 Artist-in-Residence, University of Western Sydney
Exhibition: Umberto Eco in Sydney
1996 Nature-Culture exhibition, Sydney. One-man.
1992-2011 Wilderness treks: New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea;
Tours: Malaysia, USA, France, Spain, Ireland, etc.
2000-2010 Walking tours: Celtic Rambles, and Camino de Santiago, Spain.
Rekindling...
2004 The Intense Gaze/Laneway Exhibition, Balmain. Images created within the confines of my small back laneway.
2007 Fruits of the Imagination, Sydney. Computer generated images based
on close-ups of various fruits.
2012 Night Bus Images generated from night photos on Sydney buses,
without using flash. Positively electric.