Gareth Sansom

GARETH SANSOM

Born 1939, Melbourne, Australia

Lives and works in Melbourne and Sorrento

Studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Visiting Artist, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

Artist in Residence, The University of Melbourne

Artist in Residence, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Jekyll and Ply, Station Gallery, Melbourne,

New Paintings and Works on Plywood, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Recent Works on Linen and Plywood, Milani Gallery, Queensland

A Case of the Old and the New, Station Gallery, Melbourne 

It's now or Never, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Ways of Seeing, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Ruler, rete, Arndt Art Agency, Berlin

New Paintings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

Transformer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

New Paintings, Station Gallery, Melbourne

Just Painting, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Alternative Persona, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat

Paintings and Drawings, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

New Paintings, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Recent work, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

New Paintings, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom: Welcome to my mind, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Muka Gallery, Auckland, NZ

Gareth Sansom, West Space Inc., Footscray, Victoria; Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

Gareth Sansom, Villa Delirium, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

Seventh Triennale India - Australian Tour, University of Melbourne, Canberra School of Art Gallery, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury Art Gallery, University of Tasmania Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania - Launceston, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mildura Arts Centre, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery

Recent Work, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne

Recent Work, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Out of India, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Gareth Sansom, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Gareth Sansom: Works of the 60's and 70's, Charles Nodrum, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom: Recent Paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom: Paintings 1956-1986, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Gareth Sansom, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

Gareth Sansom, Prinseneiland, Amsterdam, Holland

Gareth Sansom, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Gareth Sansom, Studio Exhibition, Napier Lane, Richmond, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Survey Exhibition, 1964-1978, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Sweeney Reed Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Sweeney Reed Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Gallery A, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Gallery A, Melbourne and Sydney

Gareth Sansom, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Argus Gallery, Melbourne

Gareth Sansom, Richman Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

An old man’s mixtape, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide (forthcoming)

Rockhampton GOLD Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland (fortcoming)

The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Thin Skin, curated by Jennifer Higgie, Monash University Museum of Art, ​Melbourne

QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria

Courage and Beauty: The James C. Sourris AM Collection, Queenland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

A Painting Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

Chromatopia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 

A Collection of Stranger Things, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria  

With a Little Help from our Friends, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

Ways of Seeing, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Ruler, rete, Arndt Art Agency, Berlin

Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary, Australia

Painting. More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne

2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object , Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Kippenberger's Paris Cafe, Neon Parc, Melbourne

POP to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, International, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, Museums and Galleries NSW Touring Exhibition

Mix Tape 1980′s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

CENSORED, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne

Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

The Naked Face, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Melbourne

Stick it! Collage in Australian art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne

We Call Them Pirates Out Here: MCA Collection selected by David Elliot, MCA, Sydney

Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne

TarraWarra Third Biennal, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria

TarraWarra Modern, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria

The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne

Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria

Quirky, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales

Gallery A Sydney 1964-1983, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Recent acquisitions, Newcastle Art Gallery,New South Wales

Preserving the past, enriching the future ~ Hugh Williamson's legacy, National Gallery of Victoria

Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Melbourne

The Led Zeppelin World Tour (A Lismore Gallery touring exhibition), Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery

The Contemporary Collage: Australian collage and assemblage, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

From Here to Eternity (Curated by Suzie Shears), S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria; (plus, Hamilton Art Gallery; Castlemaine Art Gallery; Anne + Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, 2008; and Maitland Regional Gallery, 2009)

Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Bodies and Minds, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Eye to Eye, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria

Cross Currents: Focus on Australian art , curated by John Stringer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery

Australian Drawing Part 1, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

A Man's World, curated by Frank McBride, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland

The Tallis Foundation National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Australia

Snapshot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

Twentieth Century, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

'I'm travellin' light'...'No, no you don't travel light' [Tindersticks, self titled 1995] - curated by Deborah Ostrow, Spacement Gallery

This and Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square

Wynne Prize finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Citibank Photographic Portrait Prize finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Tales of the City, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Australia

Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square

The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Freaks, Fiends, and Folly, Bright Gallery, Melbourne

Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne

The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

X Melbourne, Contemporary Art Space Canberra, Sydney College of the Arts

Nick Cave: The Good Son, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Australia

National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery (Acquired)

Nocturne, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery

Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Painting - an arcane technology, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne

Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria

Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne

Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne

Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

Australian Contemporary Art Fair

Proof Positive, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

The Mentors, Deans of the VCA School of Art, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne

The Mecenet Collection, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

Art and Furniture of the 60's, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Australian Printmaking in the 90's, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

Synergy, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

AFL EXPO, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria (Curated by Robert Lindsay)

Love, Carlisle Motel, St Kilda, Victoria

ART at UNSW: Collecting from a University's Perspective; Selected Acquisitions 1991-95, University of New South Wales, Sydney

The Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Kedumba Drawing Prize, Leura, New South Wales

Australian Watercolours; Selected Works from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Art Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

Contemporary Australian Tapestry, Australian Embassy, Paris

Persona Cognita, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

Love and Ruin, Art and St Kilda in the Twentieth Century, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne

Modern Australian Paintings 1994, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Virtuosi - Youth Music Australia Portfolio of Prints, Sherman Hargrave, Sydney

Still Life, Temple Gallery, Melbourne

On Paper, Solander Gallery, Canberra

Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Sherman Hargrave, Sydney

Political Bedrooms, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane On Paper, Curated by William Wright, Sherman Goodhope, Sydney, Solander Gallery, Canberra

Review 1992, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne

Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne

Works on Paper by Australian Contemporary Artists, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne

Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

OZPOP (with Colin Lanceley, Richard Larter and Mary Moore), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, and Australian touring - 1991/97

Interpretations - The Woven Language of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop

Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Off the Wall, In the Air: A Seventies Collection, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

SPECIAL...it's been used before..., Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne

Defective Models, Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Century, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Word as Image, Art as Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Second Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne

Out of Asia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Mass Media Mixed Media, Painters Gallery, Sydney

Freestyle, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Irony Humour and Dissent, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney

A Tribute to Rod Withers, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne

Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney

Prints and Australia: Pre-Settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Imaging AIDS, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Australian Art Post - 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Drawings 1970's-1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne

From the Southern Cross, A View of the World c.1940-1988, Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The Ammunition Show, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne

Collage Survey, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney

The ANZ Bicentennial Commissioning Series, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Gallery Survey, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Painters and Sculptors - Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

From Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Modern Australian Masters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Selections from RMIT Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

6th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Twenty Paintings from the 1960's, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Survey Exhibition, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

6 Drawings, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart

Realities Salutes Victoria's 150th Birthday, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Recent Australian Painting, A Survey 1970 -1983, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Vox Pop: Into the Eighties, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Collage, Regional Development Exhibition, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Summer Exhibition 1981, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Spectres of our Time, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts Gallery, Adelaide

Selections from CAE Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

McCaughy Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Frame of Reference, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria

Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Images, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Baldessin Memorial Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria

Georges Prize, Melbourne

Collage, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

Georges Prize, Melbourne

Ten Caufield Artists, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Recent Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Artists' Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art, New Zealand

Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art, South East Asia

Georges Prize, Melbourne

Georges Prize, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington

McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Young Melbourne Painters, Gallery A, Sydney

The Nude in Australian Art, Gallery A, Melbourne

Carnegie Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Georges Prize, Melbourne

Decade, Storey Hall, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

New Generation, MOMAD, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Survey Exhibition, MOMAD, Melbourne

CAS Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne

CAS Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne

Italian Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Artbank, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales
Latrobe Valley Regional Collection, Victoria
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Monash University, Victoria
University of Melbourne, Melbourne
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Western Australian University Art Gallery, Perth
Griffith University, Queensland
Ormond College, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Ballarat College of Advanced Education, Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art (MCA, Sydney)
McClelland Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria
Horsham Regional Gallery
Price Waterhouse Coopers, Australia
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne
Dr Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Art
One Art Collection
Wesfarmers Collection
Private collections in Australia, Europe, India, NZ, and USA

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales

John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria

John Tallis Acquisitive Award, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Virtuosi - Youth Music Australia Portfolio of Prints

Collie Fellowship, Australian Print Workshop, MelbournE

VII - The Indian Triennale, New Delhi

Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission

ANZ Bicentennial Commissioning Series

Henry Salkauskas Art (Purchase) Award

Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant

Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Visiting Artist Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant

Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Tram Project

Visual Arts Board, Travel Grant

Visual Arts Board, Special Projects Grant

SELECTED REVIEWS

Hannon, Bill, "Savagery and Subtlety", The Bulletin, 25 May, 1963
Warren, Alan, "Pop Art That's Romantic Too", The Sun, 21 April, 1965
Smith, Bernard, "Provocation and Courage on Canvas", The Age, 21 April, 1965
McCulloch, Alan, "Striking Painting", The Herald, 21 April, 1965McCaughy, Patrick, "He Really Reflects World Events", The Age, 22nd June, 1966
Warren, Alan, "New Art Form in Paste and Paint", The Sun, 22nd June, 1966
Lynn, Elwyn, "Turmoil in the Void", The Australian, 30 July, 1966
Warren, Alan, "Artist Tries a Change", The Sun, 8 April, 1970
Makin, Jeff, "Sansom's Now More Dynamic", The Sun, 5 September, 1973
Makin, Jeff, "Bumps and Grinds Make a Fine Show", The Sun, 26 February, 1975
Makin, Jeff, "Gareth Has Put in the Lot", The Sun, 19 November, 1975
Gilchrist, Maureen, "From Expressionism Back to Images", The Age, 19 November, 1975
McCulloch, Alan, "Bizarre Force", The Herald, 20 November, 1975
Gilchrist, Maureen, "Compelling Sansom Offers an Electric Experience", The Age, 6 April, 1977
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Wilder Shores", The Australian, 19 April, 1977
Eagle, Mary, "Pop Goes the Easel", The Age, 12 April, 1978
Millar, Roland, "Identity Search", The Australian, 20 April, 1978
Rooney, Robert, "Sansom Looks to the Past", The Age, 21 March, 1979
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Fire and Fury in a Richmond Back Alley", The Australian, 29 March, 1979
Maloon, Terence, "Sansom is Riveting", Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March, 1982
McIntyre, Arthur, "A Very Photographic Biennale", The Age, 14 April, 1982
Rooney, Robert, "Private Obsessions Sansom's Strength", The Age, 5th May, 1982
Millar, Ronald, "The Artist Exposed", The Herald, 6 May, 1982
Holloway, Memory, "Sansom Cool and Nasty (Alert)", The Age, 27 April, 1983
Rooney, Robert, "Sansom: Escaping the Monster", The Australian, 22 March, 1986
Millar, Ronald, "Pictures That Put You on Edge...” The Herald, 21 March, 1986
Catalano, Gary, "An Array of Obscure Facts", The Age, 21 March, 1986
McDonald, John, "Non Conformist's Mad Movie of Life", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August, 1987
Lynn, Elwyn, "A Vision of Dedicated Lives", The Australian, 22 August, 1987
Allen, Christopher, "Art can help with political will and vision", Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May, 1990
Rooney, Robert, "Pilgrims of the Inner Site", The Australian, 26 November, 1988
McDonald, John, "The Good, The Twee, and Old Boofhead", Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May, 1989
Rooney, Robert, "Quirky Delicacy alongside Questionable Taste", The Australian, 1 June, 1991
Heathcote, Christopher, "Sansom Exhibition Raises Critical Problems", The Age, 29 May, 1991
Burke, Janine, "Borderline Position", Australian Society, July, 1991
Grishin, Sasha, "Sansom Opens Up in New Form", Canberra Times, 22 July, 1991
Fern, Lynette, "Even Bald Heads", Sydney Morning Herald, 23 August, 1991
Neylon, John, "Autobiographical", Adelaide Review, October 1991
Osborne, Margot, "India's Impact on the Artist", The Advertiser, 10 October, 1991
Simon, Matthew, "Sansom in India: Artist in the Flesh", Broadsheet, Vol.20 No.4, December, 1991
Bolton, Ken, "Inbuilt Bad-Faith", Artlink, Vol.II No.4, Dec. 1991
Timms, Peter, "Painting by Numbers - Melbourne Report, 1991", Art & Australia, Vol.24 No.4 1991
George Petelin, "Riches From the East", The Weekend Australian, 11 - 12 September, 1993
Allan, Christopher,"Gareth Sansom at Sherman Galleries", Asian Art News, Vol.3 No.6 Nov/Dec 1993 p.116-17
Hill, Peter, "Into The New Asia-Pacific Art Age", Asian Art News, Vol.3 No.6 Nov/Dec 1993 p.74
Nicklin, Lenore & Mendelssohn, Joanna, "Bunch of Tens", The Bulletin, 7 December, 1993
Doyle, Celestine, "Asia-Pacific Triennial", Craft Arts International, 1993-94
Grishin, Sasha, "Outstanding work meets international standards", The Canberra Times, 26 February, 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Distant Notes Compare Well", The Australian, 16 April, 1994
Heathcote, Christopher, "Seers and visionaries should not be missed", The Age, Melbourne, 11 May 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Gender benders all dressed up, but Daffy steals the show", The Australian, 5 November, 1994
Joanna Mendelssohn, "Kedumba Drawing Award", The Australian (Sydney) 13 October 1995
Robert Rooney, "Melbourne Art, TECCA", The Australian, 22 March, 1996
Robert Nelson, “Fairs and prizes enhance art's allure”, The Age, Melbourne, 4 October, 2000
Peter Timms, “Party like there's no tomorrow”, The Age, 6 December, 2000
Robert Nelson, “Canvassing a theory of painting”, The Age, 18 February, 2001
Anna Clabburn, “Powerful Narratives”, The Australian, 16 February, 2001
Chris Reid, “Painting: reinvigorating the arcane”, RealTime 42 April-May 2001
Jeff Makin, “Only a paper world”, Herald Sun, 8 July, 2002

Ashley Crawford, `The artist as an older man', The Age, September 13, 2003
“Voices of a Generation”, The Age, 3 April, 2004
Ashley Crawford, “Gareth Sansom - Don't Look Now”, The Sunday Age - agenda, August 29, 2004
Backhouse,Megan, “Layers of agitation”, The Age, August 28, 2004
Crawford, Ashley, "Tales of the City", The Sunday Age Preview, January 30, 2005
Ashley Crawford, "This and Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing",
The Sunday Age Preview, September11th, 2005
Megan Backhouse, "Gareth Sansom", The Age Melbourne Magazine: Galleries, Issue #12 October 2005
Ashley Crawford, "Welcome to My Mind", Australian Art Collector, Issue 34, October-December 2005
Jeff Makin, "Shocker turns master", Herald-Sun, 24 October 2005
Ashley Crawford, "Gareth Sansom: Welcome to my mind" Sunday Age Preview, Dec 11, 2005
Sebastian Smee, "Works of perpetual motion to needle staid Melbourne" The Australian, Dec 15, 2005
Mixed Media, Megan Backhouse, "A win on paper" The Age, June 16, 2006
The BUZZ, "Rapt in paper", Herald Sun, June 13, 2006
Drawing on life lessons - Jeff Makin, Herald Sun, Monday, August 7, 2006
Sebastian Smee, "In the mind's eye", The Weekend Australian, Oct 21-22, 2006
Ashley Crawford, "Sansom and the post-punk intellect", The Age, July 4, 2007
Sebastian Smee, "Beauty and Brains", The Australian, October 13, 2007
Sasha Grishen, "Work of tribal elders takes centre stage", Sunday Canberra Times, October 28, 2007
John McDonald, "A palette of local colour", The Sydney Morning Herald, November 3-4, 2007
Sebastian Smee, "Forget me not", The Australian, April 5, 2008
Edward Colless, "Bad boy makes an exquisite corpse", The Australian, June 25, 2009

INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST

Hannon, Bill, "Melbourne Painters, a Bulletin Portfolio", The Bulletin, 5 December, 1964
Staff Reporter, "Gareth's Easel Did Not Go 'Pop' !", The Sun, 22 April, 1965
Wright, Claudia, "Claudia Wright Meets Gareth Sansom", The Herald, August, 1968
Milson, Wendy, "Gareth Sansom - Artist Worried by his 'Symbols'", The Age, 23 April, 1977
Hawker, Phillipa, "An Artist Involved", The Age, May 1982
Staff Reporter, "A Little Bit of Ballarat", The Courier Ballarat, 7 July, 1984
Murdoch, Anna, "Sansom's Burning Urge to Paint", The Age, 8 September, 1984
Howard, Jane, "Sansom's Plan to Attack Myths About Art", The Australian, 8 May, 1985
Leonard, Christopher, "The Art of Teaching", Vogue Living, October, 1986
McIntyre, Arthur, "Sansom Tests Nature of Art", The Age, April, 1987
Lancashire, Rebecca, "Sansom Returns to Full Time Painting", The Age, 27 May, 1991
Heathcote, Christopher, "Responding to India", Art Monthly, June 1991
Lowe, Geoff, "Interview with Gareth Sansom", Seventh Triennale, India, catalogue, 1991
Stephens, Andrew, "Prints provide new adventure in creativity", The Age, 13 April, 1994
Burchall, Greg, "Drawing Fragments Together", The Age, 1 May 1996
Julian Holcroft, “Gareth Sansom”, LIKE magazine, December, 2000
Ashley Crawford, “Relaxed but not comfortable”, The Age, April 13, 2001
Ashley Crawford, “The Artist as an Older Man”, The Age, September 13, 2003
Gabriella Coslovich, "Sansom wins $100,000 art prize", The Age, February 2008
Annemarie Kiely, "Gareth Sansom: A Fine Figure", Vogue Living, July/August 2009

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Burke, Janine, Self Portrait/Self Image, Catalogue Essay, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1981

Burke, Janine, Gareth Sansom, Collage, Catalogue Essay, Regional Development Programme, Australia Council, Sydney, 1982

Murphy, Bernice, "Recent Paintings in Australia", Flash Art, Milan January, 1983

Murphy, Bernice, Australian Perspecta 1983, Catalogue Essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983

Lindsay, Robert, Vox Pop: Into the Eighties, Catalogue Essay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1983

Radford, Ron, Recent Australian Painting, A Survey 1970-1983, Catalogue Essay, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1984

6 Drawing, Catalogue Essay, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1985

Lindsay, Frances, Gareth Sansom, Catalogue Essay, The University of Melbourne, 1986

Lindsay, Robert, From Field to Figuration, Catalogue Essay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987

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