Rodney Milgate

Rod Milgate (30 June 1934 – 19 September 2014) was an Australian painter and playwright.[1] He has also been a newsreader (on Channel 7) a Professor of the Visual Arts School of the (then) City Art Institute, University of NSW. Milgate was considered one of Australia's most influential artists, especially during the 60s and 70s. His work is represented in major collections around the world and he had many solo exhibitions and awards for his work, including the Blake Prize for Religious Art three times.[2] His play, A Refined Look at existence, first presented in February 1968, was described as "An ironic comedy drama which reworks Euripides' The Bacchae, set in a NSW country town. Daring in form, this was possibly the earliest play to capture the emotional turbulence that characterised the 1960s."[3] In 1960, he married Australian actress Dinah Shearing and the couple have two sons. Milgate retired and lived with his wife on the Central Coast, north of Sydney. He died on Friday, 19 September 2014.[4]

Selected work

Awards

Six month Residency, Studio Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Selected solo exhibitions

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
South Yarra Galleries, Melbourne
Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
South Yarra Galleries, Melbourne
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
St James Room, David Jones, Sydney
Touring exhibition, Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, and St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane
Solander Gallery, Canberra
NSW; Dubbo Regional Art Gallery,
NSW; Noosa Art Gallery, Queensland
A Search for Meaning – Recent Paintings, Blaxland Galleries, Sydney
Poetics in the Paintings of Rod
Milgate, Manly Art Gallery Survey Exhibition, Sydney

Productions and writings

Art composition: a contemporary view (book) Pub. Angus and Robertson, Sydney
"The nature of creativity". Commissioned article for October Hemisphere magazine. Pub. Commonwealth Office of education
Triage or the Fortunates (stage play) 'First Hearing', 'Australian Letters', 'Poet's Tongue' and 'Quality Street' broadcast on ABC National Radio
Pictures at an exhibition (book of poetry) Pub. Elizabethan Press, Sydney
Favourites (stage play)
Grass Up to Your Ears selected for reading at National Playwrights' Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
Destiny's Mill selected for workshop production presentation at National Playwrights' Conference, Australian National University, Canberra

Wrote Archibald Prize (stage play)

The coming of dawn, An anthology Pub. The National Library of Poetry, Owing Mills, Maryland USA
'The Sound of Poetry', cassette recording, one of ten international poems selected and recorded by National Library of Poetry, Owing Mills MD, Maryland, USA

References

  1. Milgate, Rodney. "National Library References". Trove Archive. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  2. Pinson, Peter (1995). Rod Milgate. Roseville East: Craftsman House. p. 168. ISBN 976 6410 65 8.
  3. Brisbane, Catherine (1998). Plays of the 1960s. Sydney: Currency Press. ISBN 9780868195629.
  4. "Artist and former TV newsreader Rodney Milgate dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  5. Milgate, Rodney. "Exhibition Reference". Design & Art Australia. Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
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