John Bellany CBE RA
b. 1942-2013
Education
1967
Official cultural visit to East Germany with Alan Bold and
Alexander Moffat: visited Dresden, Halle, Weimar, East Berlin, and
the concentration camp of Buchenwald
1965-1968
Royal College of Art, London, UK
1960-1965
BB Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
John Bellany, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2015
The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show
2012
The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show
2006
Beaux Arts, London
2005
East Lothian exhibitions to celebrate John Bellany’s Freeman Award
National Gallery of China, Bejing
The John Bellany Odyssey Mitchell Library, Glasgow
2004
Solomon Gallery, Dublin Beaux Arts, London Open Eye Gallery,
Edinburgh (Edinburgh Festival Exhibition)
2003
Beaux Arts, Bath Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 J
ohn Bellany, Flowers West, London
John Bellany at 60 Beaux Arts, London 60 Birthday Exhibition,
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1996
Monoprints, Flowers East, London
1995
John Bellany - New Paintings, John Bellany - Print-Maker, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
1994
Recent Paintings, Flowers East, London
1993
Prints, Drawings and Watercolours 1970 – 1993, Berkeley Square
Gallery, London
1992
A Long Night's Journey into Day: A 50th Birthday Tribute, Art Gallery and Museum
Kelvingrove 50th Birthday - A Celebration, Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
1991
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Fischer Fine Art, London
1990
Raab Gallery, Berlin Ruth Seigel Gallery, New York
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1989
The Renaissance of John Bellany: watercolours painted in
Addenbrookes' Hospital, Cambridge
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Fischer Fine Art, London
John Bellany-A Renaissance, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Aberdeen Art Gallery Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
1988
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
Workshop Gallery, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
1987
The Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
The Old Man and the Sea: Painting and Prints, Compass Gallery,
Glasgow Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr
Bellany as Printmaker 1965 - 1985, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow;
Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Beaux Arts, Bath
1986
National Portrait Gallery, London
Fischer Fine Art, London Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam Inaugural
Exhibition for opening of Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art,
London Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (toured Scotland)
1985
Clare Henry, Glasgow Herald, Glasgow
British Art of the 20th Century from the collection of Southampton Art Gallery
1984
Scottish Expressionism, Warwick Arts Trust, London
The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
The British Art Show (touring exhibition)
1983
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
Self Portraits, Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition
1982
The Subjective Eye, touring exhibition John Moores Exhibition 13,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Contemporary Choice, Serpentine Gallery, London Inner Worlds,
Arts Council touring exhibition Drawing Towards Prints,
Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh
1981
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Triptych, Ian Birksted Gallery
Peter Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Goldsmiths' College, London
The Nude, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
13 British Artists, British Council exhibition touring Germany Art
and the Sea, touring exhibition
1980 John Moores Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Prize
Winner)
British Art 1940-1980: The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery,
London
1979
Scottish Artists, Amos Anderson Gallery, Helsinki
Tate '79, Tate Gallery, London
Independent Irish Artists Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Modern
Art, Dublin (including Bacon, Crozier and Freud representing
Britain) British Painting, Oxford University
1977 25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy, London
Expressionism And Scottish Painting, Scottish Arts Council (touring exhibition)
London Group, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Scottish Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
British Painting, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
1976
John Moores Exhibition 10, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1975
4 Scottish Realists, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (with Neil Dallas
Brown, Bill Gillon and Alexander Moffat)
English and Scottish Painting '75, Fieldborne Galleries, London
1974
A Choice Selection, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh
British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London
British Art '74, Germany, (British Council Touring Exhibition) John
Moores Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1973
Fanfare for Europe, Drian Gallery
Figures in the Landscape, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1972
British Figurative Art, Nova London Gallery, Copenhagen
Scottish Artists, (Touring Exhibition by New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh)
15 Scottish Printmakers, (Touring Exhibition Nicholas Treadwell
Gallery, London)
1971
Arcadia Fine Art, Edinburgh (with William Crozier; Rodick
Carmichael and Peter Stitt)
Scottish Realism, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh 10 Scottish
Printmakers, Sussex University
1970
The Nude, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1968
Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1967
Young Contemporaries, London
London Artists, Shrewsbury John Moores Exhibition 6, Walker Art
Gallery, Liverpool
1965
Young Contemporaries, London
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition on Mound steps (with Alexander
Moffat)
1963
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, hung on railings, Castle Terrace (with
Alexander Moffat)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show
2012
The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show
2011
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2010
40 Years On, Flowers East, London
Scottish Arts, Flowers Central, London
2009
Spring Selection, Flowers Upper Gallery, London
The London Arts Fair, London
2008
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Small is Beautiful XXVI ‘Love’, Flowers Gallery, London
2007
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2005
35th Anniversary Celebration, Flowers East, London
2004
Flowers Graphics, London
Birds, Flowers Graphics, London
2003
Modern Masters from the Archives, Flowers Graphics, London
Figure in Print, Flowers Graphics Flowers Central Summer Group
Show, Flowers Central, London
2000
Prints from Chicago, Flowers West, London
Small is Beautiful Part XVII ‘Millennium’, Flowers West, London
Scotland's Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
1997
Heads, Flowers Graphics, Flowers East, London
Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East at London Fields, London
British Figurative Art, Part I: Painting, Flowers East, London
Print, Riverside Studios, London
Small is Beautiful, Part XV: Death, Flowers East at London Fields, London
British Figurative Art – Part I: Painting, Flowers East
Small is Beautiful Part XVI ‘Music’, Flowers West, London
1996
The Power of Images, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Naked, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Rye Art Gallery, Virgin Airways Upper Class Lounge Realism,
Kunstlersondebud of Deutscheland, Berlin
Angela Flowers, Ireland, Cork, Ireland
Small is Beautiful, Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East at London Fields,
London
1995
The 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields,
London Contemporary British Art in Print - The Publications of The
Paragon Press 1986-95, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh
1994
The Bigger Picture, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
After Redoute: Recent flower paintings, drawings and photographs,
Flowers East, London
Small is Beautiful, Part 12: Night and Day, Flowers East at London
Fields, London
1993
Scottish Painting, Flowers East, London
Small is Beautiful Part XI: Homages, Flowers East Contemporary
Trends in British Art, Hayward Gallery, London
The Line of Tradition, Scotland
John Moores Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1992
New British Art, Denmark (British Council Exhibition)
Modern Masters: Prints, Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1990
Glasgow's Great British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
The Compass Contribution, Tramway, Glasgow
8 Scottish Printmakers, British Council touring exhibition,
Singapore, Glasgow Turning the Century, The New Scottish
Painting (touring show), The Raab Gallery, London, Milan, Berlin,
USA, Bellany/Howson/ McFadyen
Scotland Creates, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
1989
El Greco Exhibition, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (guest
artist) Eros in Albion, (House of Massaccio) Italy, British Council
Exhibition British Figurative Painting, selected by Norbert Lynton
Every Picture Tells a Story, British Council Touring Exhibition, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Africa
1988
British Romantic Painting, touring exhibition opened Madrid
The Royal College of Art Print Portfolio Exhibition, Victoria & Albert
Museum, London
1987
Scottish Painting 1954-87, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh; Warwick Arts
Trust, London
Awarded George Walliston Prize for best work in Royal Academy,
London Represented Britain in Ljubljana Print Biennale, Yugoslavia;
2nd Triennale of European Engraving, Grada, Italy
The Self Portrait, selected by Edward Lucie-Smith and Sean Kelly,
Artsite Gallery, Bath, Fischer Fine Art, London
The Scottish Bestiary (portfolio of prints touring exhibition), The
Banqueting House, London
1986
Man and Animals, Arts Council exhibition, Nottingham Castle Celtic
Vision, (touring exhibition opened Madrid)
1985
Athena International Awards, Mall Galleries London (Joint First
Prize)
British Painting, Manchester City Art Gallery, Fine Art Society,
Edinburgh
1984
Scottish Expressionism, Warwick Arts Trust, London
The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
The British Art Show (touring exhibition)
1983
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin Self Portraits, Scottish Arts
Council touring exhibition
1982
The Subjective Eye, touring exhibition John Moores Exhibition 13,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Contemporary Choice, Serpentine
Gallery, London Inner Worlds, Arts Council touring exhibition
Drawing Towards Prints, Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh
1981
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Triptych, Ian Birksted Gallery
Peter Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Fruitmarket
Gallery, Edinburgh; Goldsmiths' College, London
The Nude, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
13 British Artists, British Council exhibition touring Germany Art
and the Sea, touring exhibition
1980
John Moores Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Prize
Winner)
British Art 1940-1980: The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery,
London
1979
Scottish Artists, Amos Anderson Gallery, Helsinki Tate '79, Tate
Gallery, London
Independent Irish Artists Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Modern
Art, Dublin (with Bacon, Crozier and Freud representing Britain)
British Painting, Oxford University
The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and touring
1977
25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy, London
Expressionism And Scottish Painting, Scottish Arts Council (touring
exhibition)
London Group, Royal College of Art Galleries, London Scottish
Painting, Edinburgh College of Art
British Painting, Nottingham Castle
1976
John Moores Exhibition 10, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1975
4 Scottish Realists, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (with Neil Dallas
Brown, Bill Gillon and Alexander Moffat) English and Scottish
Painting '75, Fieldborne Galleries, London
1974
A Choice Selection, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh British
Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London
British Art '74, Germany, (British Council Touring Exhibition)
John Moores Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1973
Fanfare for Europe, Drian Gallery Figures in the Landscape, Arts
Council Touring Exhibition
London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1972
British Figurative Art, Nova London Gallery, Copenhagen Scottish
Artists, (Touring Exhibition by New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh)
15 Scottish Printmakers, (Touring Exhibition Nicholas Treadwell
Gallery, London)
1971
Arcadia Fine Art, Edinburgh (with William Crozier; Rodick
Carmichael and Peter Stitt)
Scottish Realism, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh 10 Scottish
Printmakers, Sussex University
1970
The Nude, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1968
London Group, London
Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1967
Young Contemporaries, London
Artists, Shrewsbury
John Moores Exhibition 6, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1966
Young Contemporaries, London
1965
Young Contemporaries, London
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition on Mound steps
1963 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, hung on railings, Castle Terrace
Retrospective Exhibitions
1986
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Serpentine Gallery, London
1988-1989
Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Awards, Honours & Commissions
1995
Glasgow Herald Award for Excellence
1993
Korn/Ferry Picture of the Year, Royal Academy
1992
British Council visit to Central Europe, Prague, Vienna, Budapest
1991
Commissioned to paint Lord Renfrew and Sir Roy Calne by the
National Portrait Gallery, London
1987
Wollaston Award, Royal Academy
1985
Athena International Art Award (joint first prize winner)
1981
Major Arts Council Award
1980
John Moores Prize Winner
1965
Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship; travelled to Holland and
Belgium
Commissioned by Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to paint
murals for Chesser House, Edinburgh
Burston Award at Royal College of Art
1962
Andrew Grant Scholarship; travelled to Paris
Public Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Arts Council of Great Britain
Belfast Polytechnic
British Council
British Museum, London
Chesser House, Edinburgh
Contemporary Art Society
Dundee Central Museum and Art Gallery
Dublin Museum of Modern Art
Edinburgh Corporation
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums
Government Art Collection
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Isle of Man Arts Council Collection
J.F Kennedy Library, Boston
Kassa Kasser Museum, New York
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Museum of Boca Raton, Florida
Museum of London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Gdansk
National Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw
Royal College of Art, London
Scottish Arts Council
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Sheffield City Art Gallery
Southampton City Art Gallery
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
University of Western Australia, Perth
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Wolverhampton Municipal Art Gallery and Museum
Yale Centre of British Art
National Library of Congress, Washington
National Portrait Gallery, London
New York Public Gallery
Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Zuider Zee Museum, Holland
Film and Documentaries
1994
BBC2 The Bigger Picture
BBC2 The Late Show
1991
ITV Film 'John Bellany' with Vivien Hamilton, 30 minutes
1989
BBC 'Heart of the Matter: "Is Life worth Living? It Depends on the
Liver"
1986 BBC Television 'A Portrait' John Bellany, (15 minutes)
BBC Television 'John Bellany, A Retrospective' directed by Keith
Alexander, 30 minutes
BBC 'Heart of the Matter - John Bellany' with Joan Bakewell, 30 minutes
1975
BBC Television (Scotland):'John Bellany' (30-minute film directed by W. Gorden Smith)
Lecturing
1999
Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art, London
1998
Honorary D Lit, Heriot Watt, University of Edinburgh
1996
Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh
1994
Awarded CBE by Her Majesty the Queen
1988
Elected Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1983
Artist in Residence, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne,
Australia
1978-84
Lecturer in Painting, Goldsmiths' College of Art
1969-73
Lecturer in Painting, Winchester College of Art. Visiting Lecturer at
Royal College of Art, and Goldsmiths' College of Art
1968
Lecturer in Painting, Brighton College of Art
Selected Bibliography
1999
Catalogue of Scotland's Art, Edinburgh City Art Centre
Clare Henry, The master waxes lyrical, The Herald, 24 August
1997
William Packer, Sculptural Graces...., The Financial Times, 3
January Tamasin Doe, Portrait artists, The London Evening
Standard 17 January
Dintenfass listing, The New Yorker, 30 January
Scotland Reviews, Arts Review, February
Lila Rawlings, The Right Impressions, The List, 24 February-9
March Galleries, The Scotsman, 4 March
.... paragon of print, Scotland on Sunday,12 March
William Packer, Battery of beasts and symbols, Financial Times, 22 August
1994
Sea shore beasts and graffiti, William Packer, Financial Times, 26 November
Simon Corbin, What's On, 30 November
Duncan Macmillan, 'A haunted life...’,The Scotsman, 5 December
W Gordon Smith, Art & Part, Scotland on Sunday, 11 December
David Ekserdjian, book review, The Spectator,17 December
1993
Scottish Painters, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, September
John Bellany, Art Review, October
My Country Childhood, John Bellany, Country Living, October
Pulse, John Keenan, The Big Issue, 19 October
John Bellany, Simon Corbin, What's On, 20 October
Revisiting the Trauma of Surgery, James Bustard, The Scotsman, 27 October
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
exhibition catalogue
Painting the Town, W. Gordon Smith, Scotland on Sunday, 7 November
Bellany's Talent Recognised, Audrey Gillan, The Scotsman, 31 December
Contemporary Painting in Scotland, edited by Bill Hare, The
Concise Catalogue of Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art compiled by Patrick Elliott
1992
The Art of Creation, Ajay Close, Scotland on Sunday, 5 July
An Artist with Vibrant Good Hope, Allen Wright, The Scotsman, 10 July 1992
John Bellany, Bill Hare, Galleries Magazine, July 1992
Portrait of an Artist now Bursting with Life, Robert Dawson Scott,
Sunday Times Scotland, 12 July
To the End of the Night, Miranda France, The List 3-16 July Vision
of the Artist in Three Acts, Clare Henry, The Glasgow Herald, 13 July
Bellany's Day, The Ticket, July Feature, The Preview, July/August/September
A Long Night's Journey into Day: The Art of John Bellany, The Scotsman, 18 July
A Portrait of My Love, Anne Simpson, The Herald, 28 July
Metaphorically Speaking, Tom Lubbock, The Independent on Sunday, 2 August
Back from his Brush with Death, Andrew Gibbons Williams, The Times, 4 August
Life, near-death, sin and wickedness, Mary Rose Beaumont, The Financial Times, 25 August
A Long Night's Journey into Day: The Art of John Bellany,
catalogue essay, Alexander Moffat, Art Gallery and Museum,
Kelvingrove A Long Night's Journey into Day, Keith Patrick,
Contemporary Art Magazine, Autumn
1991
John Bellany in Cambridge, Jane Munro, catalogue introduction,
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Susan Pirnie, catalogue introduction, Highland Regional Council touring exhibition
British Contemporary Art 1910-1990 - Eighty Years collecting by the Contemporary Art Society
1990
Turning Point, William Packer, Royal Academy magazine, No 26, Spring
Scottish Painting, 1837 to the Present, William Hardie
Scottish Art 1460-1990, Duncan McMillan
Peter Fuller, catalogue introduction, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Edward Lucie-Smith, catalogue introduction, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
Peter Fuller, catalogue introduction, Raab Gallery, Berlin
Son of the Sea, John McEwen, Telegraph Magazine, photograph by Lord Snowdon, 19 May
1989
Prometheus Restored, Sarah Jane Checkland, The Times
Portrait of the Artist as a Patient at Death's Door, Clare Henry,
Glasgow Herald, 24 March
View from a Visionary, Alan Bold, Observer Scotland, 26 March
Survivors and Debtors, Alistair Hicks, The Times, 4 April
New Liver, New Life, Peter Fuller, The Sunday Telegraph, 9 April
John Bellany Painting on the Edge, Alan Bold, Modern Painters,Spring
A to B and Back Again, Mike von Joel, Artline, Vol 4 No5, February/March
Back from the Brink, Clare Flowers, Scotland on Sunday, 19 March
1988
John Bellany, Ellen Lee Klein, Arts Magazine, April
Alistair Hicks, catalogue introduction, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
Thomas Schnurmacher, The Gazette, Montreal, 6 April
A Voyage to Hell and Back, Edward Gage, The Scotsman, 12 August
Exhibition Road - painters at the Royal College of Art, edited by Paul Huxley, published by Phaidon Press
1987
Catalogue- Trienniale Europea Dell' Incisione, Grado, Italy
William Feaver, The Observer, 7 June
Rare Thrills Among the Royal Academy's Conformity, Waldemar Januszczak,
The Guardian, 8 June
The Whitechapel Auction, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London,
Sotheby's catalogue, 1 July
Bellany at Kilkenny Castle, Dorothy Walker, The Irish Independent, 29 August
1986
Catalogue essays by William Packer and Robin Gibson Gibson
John Bellany: New Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London
Bellany's Voyage, catalogue essay by Richard Cork, Fischer Fine Art, London
Personal view of Botham the folk hero, Clare Henry, Glasgow Herald, 28 January
Catalogue for Christies Auction, London, and New York,
Tate Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, 1982-84,
Fifty Twentieth Century Artists in the Scottish National Gallery,
Illustrated catalogue John Bellany (retrospective exhibition) -
Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours 1964-86, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and The Serpentine Gallery, London
John Bellany: A Portrait of the Artist, an essay by Alan Bold The Voyage of John Bellany
John Bellany Retrospective Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh Festival, The Times Review, 12 August
Profile on John Bellany, John Fowler, The Glasgow Herald, 14 August
Hot Scots, Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, 17 August
Face to Face with Bellany, Edward Gage, The Scotsman, September 8
Bellany's Glowing Summer, Peter Jones, The Scotsman, 28 October
New Scottish Colourists, Alistair Hicks, Vogue, October
John Bellany Retrospective Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery and
The Serpentine Gallery, Studio International, Winter Issue
1984
Catalogue essay by Alexander Moffat, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness,
Art Monthly, no. 79
John Bellany in Australia: a conversation with Jeff Makin,
Studio International, vol. 197, no.1005 Catalogue
The British Council Collection 1934-1984 reproduced L'Horlage
page 29, Introduction by Julian Andrews, Director, Fine Arts
Department Max Wykes-Joyce, Edinburgh, Art and Artists, vol. 215, August
The Times, 21 August
1983
John Bellany, Paintings 1972-1982 exhibition catalogue Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (and subsequent tour)
Essays by Victor Musgrave and Phillip Rawson, and poem, The Voyage of John Bellany;
A Triptych, by Alan Bold Robert Ayres,
Studio International, vol.196, no.1001 Vision from the outer edge,
Irene McManus, The Guardian, 8 March
Marina Vaizey, The Times, 20 March
Peter Fuller, Art Monthly, no.65, April
John Bellany at the Ikon, Rasaad Jamie, Artscribe, no.40, April
James Burr, Apollo, no.117, May 1983
Bellany goes to extremes to reflect the hard life, John Fowler, Glasgow Herald, 7 June
William Packer, Artline, no.6, Glasgow Herald, 9 June
Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Review, October
1982
John Bellany, Paintings 1972-1982 exhibition catalogue Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (and subsequent tour)
Essays by Victor Musgrave and Phillip Rawson, and poem, The Voyage of John Bellany; A Triptych, by Alan Bold Robert Ayres,
Studio International, vol.196, no.1001
Vision from the outer edge, Irene McManus, The Guardian, 8 March
Marina Vaizey, The Times, 20 March
Peter Fuller, Art Monthly, no.65, April
John Bellany at the Ikon, Rasaad Jamie, Artscribe, no.40, April
James Burr, Apollo, no.117, May 1983
Bellany goes to extremes to reflect the hard life, John Fowler,
Glasgow Herald, 7 June
William Packer, Artline, no.6, Glasgow Herald, 9 June
Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Review, October
1981
Profile on John Bellany, Mike Von Joel, Artline Edward LucieSmith, Artscribe, no.27, February Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Review, 5 June
The Language of Allegory, Mary Rose Beaumont, Art and Artists,
no.181, October
Peter Moores Liverpool Project 6, Edward LucieSmith, Mary Rose Beaumont, Art and Artist, no.183, December
1981
1980 Catalogue essay by William Packer, Acme Gallery, London Stuart Morgan, Art Forum, April
The Painter's Inheritance, Heather Waddell, Glasgow Herald, 14
June Lucy Ellman, Art Review, no.12, 20 June
Marina Vaizey, The Times, 22 June
John Roberts, Artscribe, no.24, August
1978 Marina Vaizey, The Times, 8 January
Simon Vaughan Winter, Artscribe, no. 10, January
John Bellany: Paintings, Martin Green, Art Monthly, no.14, February
Felix McCullough, Art Review, no.5, 17 March
1973
Catalogue essay by Alan Bold, Triad Regional Arts Centre,
Bishops Stortford Catalogue essay by William Crozier and
Eddie Wolfram, Drian Gallery, London Eddie Wolfram, Art Review, no.4, 24 February
Eddie Wolfram, Art and Artists, vol.8, September Barbara Wright, Art Review, no.20, 8 October
1971
Catalogue essay by Alan Bold, Drian Gallery, London Scottish Realism, catalogue essay by Alan Bold, Scottish Arts Council
touring exhibition Interview in Scottish Realism catalogue Scottish
Realism, Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian, 14 May
Catalogue essay, group exhibition with William Crozier, Rodick Carmichael and
Peter Stitt, Arcadia Fine Art Eddie Wolfram, Art Review, vol. 23 no.
17 Oswell Blakeston, Art Review, vol.23 no.15
1970
Oswell Blakeston, Art Review, vol.22, no.9 William Packer, Art and Artists, vol.5, May
1969 Positive evidence of new Edinburgh School, Edward Gage, The Scotsman 4, September