JOCK YOUNG
SOLO EXHIBITION
Having recently moved back to Avalon from Tasmania I have been enjoying reacquainting myself with the many different moods and subjects of the area, particularly around Pittwater and the neighbouring beaches. I have taken to filling sketch books with plein air gouache and watercolour paintings of the many places I visit. This has allowed me a more spontaneous approach to painting outside. From these sketches, some of which are quite detailed, and others not so much, I have turned into the oil paintings in this exhibition. I have tried to capture the freshness of the original sketches. The paintings here are mainly a result of that process.
Studies, travel and teaching.
2020-2024 Art tutor, Bay of fires, North East Tasmania (Tasmanian walking company), Ratho farm, Tasmania (Art travel adventures), Larapinta trail, Northern Territory (Tasmanian walking Company)
2023 Artist in residence Press West with Raymond Arnold (Queenstown, Tasmania)
2019 Maui (Hawaii) plein air workshop
2013 Residency, Cite de Internationale, Paris
2009 France study tour
2000 Residency, Bundanon (Boyd family), Shoalhaven NSW
1997 Residency, Cite de Internationale (Rosamund McCulloch Studio) Paris
1975-82 Various non-degree courses in painting and drawing Sydney University, East Sydney and Seaforth Technical Colleges
Solo exhibitions
Over 30 solo exhibitions in Tasmania (Bett Gallery, Colville Gallery and Handmark Gallery), Sydney (Robin Gibson Gallery and NG Gallery), and Melbourne (Manyung Gallery) from 1986 to present. I am represented by Handmark Gallery in Tasmania and exhibit their biennially.
Recent Solo exhibitions
2025 “Return to Avalon” Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2025 “Waterways – plein air to abstraction” Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2024 “A year in Avalon” AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2023 “Effects of light” Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2022 “Outside” Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2020 “Sunlight”” Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2019 “Autumn” Handmark Gallery, Evandale, Tasmania
Selected group exhibitions
2021 Finalist, Waverley Woollahra Art Prize 9 x 5 (Commended)
2018 Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize (Highly Commended)
2015 Finalist, Glover Prize
2014 Finalist, Glover Prize
2014 Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival
2013 Finalist, Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Hobart
2009 “marcher sur les pelouses” Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart
2008 Art Melbourne 08, Melbourne
2007 Art Melbourne 07, Melbourne
2006 Tattersall's Invitation Landscape Art Award, Brisbane
en plien air, Huon Art Group Winner; Art on the Rocks, Sydney
2005 Art on the Rocks, Sydney Visitor Centre; Only Drawing, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Artaid, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Tattersall's Invitation Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2004 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize
2001 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize
1993 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize exhibition; International Print Fair, Sydney, NSW
1992 Salon des Refusés, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize exhibition
1987 Finalist, Wynne Prize competition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Commissions and awards
2018 NSW Parliament Plein air Prize (Highly commended)
2006 En plein air, Huon Art Group (Winner)
2000 Tattersall National Landscape art prize (Highly commended)
1999 Arts Tasmania (Art in public buildings)
1994 Arts Tasmania (Art in public buildings)
1993 Winner, Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club 125th Anniversary Art Prize, Sydney
Set of eight oil paintings commissioned for Tasmania 's Bass Strait ferry "Spirit of Tasmania "
1992 Set of eight oil paintings commissioned by the Trust Bank, Tasmania
1991 Set of linocut prints commissioned by Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board for Common Ground, a joint project with the British Arts Council
Collections
Artbank, ABC Hobart, Art in public buildings program (Tasmania) 1994, 1999
Australian National Gallery, Bundanon Trust, CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart City Council, Huon Valley Council, National Australia Bank Collection, Reserve Bank of Tasmania, Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, Sydney, Spirit of Tasmania, Trust Bank Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart and Launceston
Media
Instagram @jock.young
References
2025 Andrew Harper “Delights in the danger zone” Visual Arts The Mercury
2014 Art Collector “Jock Young, recent works”
2012 Elizabeth Fortescue ‘A breath of fresh air for suburbia’ Daily Telegraph, January 30, 2012
2012 Peter Wright - The Week Magazine, Arts p. 23 (20 January) – ‘Jock Young: Forty two Degrees South’ at NG Gallery
2012 The Australian Arts Diary Jock Young
2012 Sydney Morning Herald Arts Diary (19 January) “Jock Young”
2007 Stateline, 7.30 Report, ABC Television 18 May, 2007
Andersch, J Perfection by Degrees, Reference Point The Mercury 19 May, 2007
2006 Art Collector Issue 36 April – June p.268
2005 Andersch, Joerg New Works The Mercury
2005 Elizabeth Fortescue. Daily Telegraph
2003 Lenny Ann Low. Disparate Visions. Sydney Morning Herald. 12-13 July
2001 Genevieve Read. Quest beyond surface of things. Mercury, 26 July
2000 Michelle Paine. Boat comes in for artist Jock Young. The Mercury, 9 September
1999 Taha Baxter. Jock Young, Interpreting reality. Artists Palette 8, p. 62 - 67
1999 George Andersch. The Mercury, Weekend Arts, 27 March
1996 George Andersch. The Mercury, Weekend Arts, 26 October
1994 McIntyre. Hobart artist exhibits in Launceston The Examiner. Jan 29, p. 17 George Andersch. The Mercury, Weekend Arts, 3rd December
1993 CAST calender, Sean Kelly. To the surface' - an exhibition of contemporary landscape Press Press, p. 51-52, Summer Chris Viney. Jock Young, painter of sails, sunlight and salt water, Leatherwood, April Elwyn Lynn. Ted Hillyer, Jock Young, Toby Dupree: Australians all / Robin Gibson Gallery The Weekend Australian. Review 13, July 3-4 Margaretta Pos. Positively speaking The Mercury, p. 39, July 3
George Andersch. The Mercury, Weekend Arts, December 11 Anon. Art and Australia, Summer, p. 164
1992 Tony Ryan. Jock Young, the pilgrimage Press Press (Tasmanian Arts and Entertainment Magazine), p. 44, Spring
Anon. Profile on two Tasmanian artists State of the Arts. p.18, Issue No. 4
Anon. Trust Bank Tasmania Annual Report 1992
Elwyn Lynn. Christmas, Robin Gibson Gallery The Weekend Australian, Review 11, December 12-13
1991
Sean Kelly Review of Hobart Art Prize The Mercury p. 23, January 5
Elwyn Lynn Galleries, Jock Young at Robin Gibson Gallery The Weekend Australian, Review 8, March 16-17
Margaretta Pos Positively speaking The Mercury, Weekend Arts p. 21, Aug 3
Joerg Andersch Exhibition review. The Mercury, Weekend Arts, August 10
1990
Susan Leggett. Welcome home to a striking show Mercury p.22, September 1
1987
1986 Anon Arts diary Vogue Living. No. 5, p.35 Margaretta Pos. Jock's brightness is an exciting discovery The Mercury p. 31, December 14