GREEKS 
IN AUSTRALIA
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SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

1975                       Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1980         Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne

1984                  Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

1985                              Victorian Print Workshop

1986                  Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

1987                        Niagra Galleries, Melbourne

1988                        Niagra Galleries, Melbourne
1990                        Niagra Galleries, Melbourne

1993          Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

1994                                       Mildura Art Gallery

1995                                           Gallery Irascible

1995 La Trobe University Art Museum , Melbourne

1997                Victorian Artists Society Galleries

1998                                          Symrnios Gallery
200                                                Span Galleries

2001                              Charles Nodrum Gallery

2002                                                Goya Gallery

2005                                              Ochre Gallery

2006                                              Ochre Gallery

COLLECTIONS

Victorian National Gallery

National Gallery of Athens

Artbank

Myer Foundation

Council of Adult Education

La Trobe University Collection

Diamond Valley Council

Melbourne University Collection

Victorian College of the Arts Collection

Melbourne City Council

National Bank Collection

Mildura Art Gallery

BHP Billiton Collection

Centre of Hellenic Studies - Melbourne

Price-Waterhouse Collection

Maroondah City Council

Private Collections

PUBLICATIONS

Drury, Neville: New Art Three; Craftsman's Press, 1989. Germaine, Max: Artists and Galleries of Australia ; Craftsman House, 1990. McCulloch, Susan; Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alien & Unwin, 1994. Images II Contemporary Australia ?! Painting; Craftsman's Press, 1994.  

Born in Limnos Greece , Paul immigrated to Australia in  1957 and m  1968 commenced   studies   in painting and drawing under John Brack and Lenton Parr at the National Gallery  
School , graduating in 1971.

Since then he has worked
consistently and exibited
regularly in Melbourne
and overseas.

Paul feels an affinity with the European expressive tradition from Cezanne through to the early modernists, where the exterior world is transformed through an evolving pictorial language subject to the imagination of the artist. Primarily, his images are sourced from the micro cosmos of the world around him

For Paul drawing is very important as an aspect of image making which connects him immediately with what he sees. Under each painting is a detailed drawing done on location because this is a way of developing a pictorial structure which is then consolidated and expanded on in the paintings.

The recent work is of the landscape in Lyslerneld, not far from where Paul lives so he was able to visit and study it regularly Much of the paintings are from the same spot on a hill overlooking the valley. The challenge was to integrate the multitude of detail into a coherent pictorial structure, where each form and plain has been accorded its appropriate role in the play of rhythms that weave across the picture. The sense of subliminal order that is perceived as underlying the landscape and manifesting its presence is something that he wanted to translate into the pictures. To have within them, in a pictorial way, the harmony and reality reflected in nature. Although the pictures end up looking abstracted, they have a direct visual reference.