|
Born 1939 First solo exhibition, Melbourne, 1960, followed by regular exhibitions mainly in Melbourne and Sydney with Rudy Komon Gallery. 1964 was awarded the Commendation Prize for a young artist at the Georges Invitation Art Prize in Melbourne - judged by James Johnson Sweeny (ex Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York) who purchased the work for his then Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas, USA. In 1966 was awarded the Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, resulting in travel to Europe. On return in 1967, began part-time teaching appointment at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology School of Art, which later became full-time in 1970, then resigned in 1980 to concentrate fully on painting. Represented Australia at the Sao Paolo Biennale in Brazil in 1973, followed by extensive travel in South America and the U.S.A. In 1975 appointed Creative Arts Fellow at ANU, Canberra and lived and worked there until the end of 1976. 1978-80 carried out relief murals commissioned for the atrium of the new High Court of Australia in Canberra. From a studio in Port Melbourne in 1981 began the Port Liardet painting series, based on Port Melbourne and its history and the works of the first settler, artist/hotelier Wilbraham Evelyn Liardet (1799-1878) Exhibition of Copperopolis - Mt Lyell paintings in 1983 based on the remote copper mines of South West Tasmania. Travelled and worked in U.S.A. and Europe in 1984. Extended journey through North-West Australia in 1986 resulting in the North-West and Wittenoom series. Between 1984-87 Member of Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Between 1984-89 Artist-Trustee at the National Gallery of Victoria. 1987 invited to journey to Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division aboard the Icebird for their annual re-supply of Australian bases there, this resulted in the 1988 exhibition of the Voyage Six - Antarctica series. Late in 1988 became artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Visited North-West Australia again including some Aboriginal settlements particularly Balgo to further own interests in Aboriginal art. 1989 appointed Visiting Professor- Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Boston, USA. Worked and taught there until returning to Australia in 1990. 1992-93 completed a large scale painting and sculpture commission for the Governor Phillip Tower in Sydney. 1994, extensive survey of paintings and drawings, Jan Senbergs, Imagined Sites, Imagined Reality, at the Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne. Mid nineties - large scale work on paper culminating in the Sites and Cities series. 1997 worked in encaustic medium at the Garner Tullis Art workshop in New York. 1999-2001 Armidale '42 Exhibition, collaboration with Col Madigan, Don Watson, series of large scale drawings depicting the sinking of the HMAS Armidale in the Arafura Sea in 1942, a Bendigo Art Gallery touring exhibition which exhibited at the Ian Potter Museum, Newcastle Region Art gallery, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Maritime Museum, Sydney. 2001 Artist in Residence, Newcastle Region Gallery. Selected Collections |