BORN    1951

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009        The Net, Despard Gallery
2008        On the coast, Despard Gallery
2006        Return Journey (with Jon Eiseman), Despard Gallery        
2004        Paintings & Drawings, Despard Gallery
2002        Paintings, Despard Gallery
2001        Homage to Daumier, Despard Gallery
1999        Recent Paintings, Despard Gallery
1997        INK ON PAPER - Monotypes, Despard Gallery
1996        Paintings, Despard Gallery
1995        Paintings, Despard Gallery
1994        New Work - Dale Richards, Despard Gallery
1993        The Incoming Tide, Despard Gallery
1990        Bonython Meadmore, Sydney
                 Gould Gallery, Melbourne
1986        Nicholson Street Gallery, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008         Depot Gallery at Dank St, Sydney
2007         Art Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
2006         ANL Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne (Selected finalist)
2005         ArtSydney05, represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart
2004         17th Annual Summer Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
                  Melbourne ARTFAIR 2004, Melbourne, represented by Despard Gallery    
                  Paintings & Drawings, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2003        16th Annual Summer Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
                 Despard Gallery at Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2002        A Baroque Christmas, 15th Annual Christmas Exhibition, Despard Gallery
                 The Australian Antiques and Fine Art Fair, Sydney represented by
                 Despard Gallery
2001        14th Annual Christmas Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart
                The Australian Antiques and Fine Art Fair, Sydney represented by Despard Gallery
2000        Salsa, 13th Annual Christmas Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart
                 20th Great Sydney Antiques Fair, represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart
                 ARTFAIR 2000, Melbourne, represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart
                 Antique Fair, Melbourne, represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart
                 Antique Fair, Sydney, represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart
1999        Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago, USA, represented by Despard Gallery,
                 7th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney,
                 represented by Allyn Fisher  Fine Art
1998        1998 Christmas group show.
                 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, October,  Royal  Exhibition Buildings,
                 Melbourne ACAF 6, represented by Despard Gallery
                 ‘Raining Like ...” Group Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart
                 Despard Gallery11th. Annual Xmas Group Show, Hobart
1997        Pride & Prejudice, Group Exhibition, Despard Gallery
1996        Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Despard Gallery
                 X-Mas 1996, Group Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
1995/96  Opulence, Despard Gallery, Hobart
1995        X-MAS Group Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
1993        Centenary Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
1982        Gallery Dia - West Berlin
1981        Rex Erwin Gallery, Sydney
1978        Adam Rish & Dale Richards, Bowerbank Mill Gallery
1976        Gallery One, Hobart
1975        Blue Gum Festival of Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
                 The Human Figure, Devonport Art Gallery
1974        Bowerbank Mill Gallery, Deloraine
1973        Blue Gum Festival of Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
1971        Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
1970/72/76  The Little Gallery, Devonport

AWARDS & GRANTS 

1974        The Owen Tooth Memorial Cottage Residency.  Based in France
                 VAB Travel Grant to France
1973        Tasmanian Drawing Prize

COLLECTIONS        

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Devonport Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
University of Tasmania
Art Bank, Sydney
Private collections, U.S.A., Germany, Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Sue Backhouse, Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century
Paul W White, “Coming or Going, Eight Tasmanian Artists”
The Tasmanian Review, Hobart, No 3, Autumn 1980