About Errol Barnes
Biography
1941 Born Brisbane
1960 Teachers College Brisbane
1961/62 Art School Central Technical College, Brisbane
1962 Built first wood-fired kiln at Mitchelton, Brisbane
1963/64 Art teacher at Rockhampton High School
1965 Full-time potting, Mitchelton Brisbane
Collections
Solo Works
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Western Australia State Gallery, Perth
Tasmanian Art Gallery, Hobart
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queensland Potters' Association Collection, Brisbane
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery & Museum
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
Power House Museum, Sydney
HOTA Gold Coast
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum
Collaborative Works
With William Robinson (Australian artist)
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery & Museum
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
University of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
HOTA Gold Coast
With Joe Furlonger (Australian artist)
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery & Museum
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Powerhouse Museum Sydney
Art Gallery of Victoria
HOTA Gold Coast
NRMA Collection
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
Redland Art Gallery, Queensland
With Bill Hay (Australian artist)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
With Gavin Chilcott (New Zealand Artist)
Power House Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Auckland City Museum NZ
Art Museum of Christchurch NZ
MTG Hawke's Bay NZ
In 1969 Ray Hughes and Ian Reece set up Gallery One Eleven and I began to show with them. Later Ray and Ian ended their partnership when Ray moved to a new premises in Red Hill.
1974 Self and Ray
Ray later acquired Rudy Koman's old gallery and expanded his operation to Sydney. He later bought the 3 storey building in Surry Hills that became the iconic Ray Hughes Gallery. In 1989 Ray approached me with the idea of collaborating with a number of his artists. William Robinson, Joe Furlonger, Bill Hay, Tony Twigg, Robert Moore, Michael Barnett and Gavin Chilcott. This led to the exhibition "Artists Make Ceramics" that pre-viewed in Brisbane then went to Sydney for the main showing.
From then on I continued in collaborations with Bill Robinson, Joe Furlonger, Gavin Chilcott (New Zealand), Cheng Tsai-Tung (Taiwan) and Yu Peng (Taiwan)
Over the years I had exhibited with other galleries in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Auckland. However Ray was my primary dealer.
Black and white photography by Glen O'Malley