Bob Millis
ACADEMIC RECORD

1980-81      Certificate in Art, Wollongong Technical College
1982-84      Diploma in Art, Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
1987           Diploma of Education, ITATE, Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1981          Wollongong University
1982           Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
1983           Riverina Gallery, Wagga Wagga
1984           Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1985           Painter’s Gallery, Sydney
1985           Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1985           Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga
1988           Regional Art Gallery, Orange
1989           Jan Jones Contemporary Gallery, Bowral
1990           Regional Art Gallery, Griffith
1991           Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn
1996           Sheep’s Back Gallery, Yass
1997           Regional Art Gallery, Orange
1997           Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
1998           Regional Art Gallery, Griffith
2002           Regional Art Gallery, Orange
2003           Regional Art Gallery, Griffith

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1981           Cell Block, East Sydney
1981           Only Gallery, Wollongong
1981           Peter Styversant Art Award Kiama
1982           Woollahra Gallery, Sydney
1982           Riverina Gallery, Wagga Wagga
1982           Brim Brim Gallery, Queenscliff
1982           National Art Award, Canberra
1983           Visual Art Centre, Canberra
1983           National Art Award, Canberra
1984           National Art Award, Canberra
1985           Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
1986           Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1986           Art Peace Prize, Dubbo (winner)
1987           Von Bertough Gallery, Newcastle
1988           Calinda Art Gallery, Parkes
1988           ‘Purchase Prize’ Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst (purchased)
1988           Regional Art Gallery, Griffth
1990           Art Festival Melbourne (Chapman Gallery)
1992           Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn
1993           Regional Art Gallery, Griffith
1994           Regional Art Gallery, Campbelltown
1997           Old Brewery Gallery, Goulburn
1998           BDAS Gallery, Bowral
1999           Sturt Gallery, Mittagong

I was a Riverina rice, sheep and vegetable farmer until 1977 when the changing forces that demand new paths descended upon me. I packed my suitcase and embarked on a new journey into the creative arts, a journey that still finds me on the bus in the year 2000.

The Bus ride turned out to be a wild Bull ride, which is quite ok, considering that I am still alive. The bruises on my butt are the closest thing to a tattoo that I will probably ever get.

I have seen and been many things in the last 20 years. As I write this I can claim, for better or worst, 14 years of full time teaching art in TAFE colleges at Orange and Goulburn.

Through the arts I have met the extremes of human condition, sycophants, butt kissers, pole sitters, revolutionaries, lying cheating bastards, brainless dick heads, psychopaths, TAFE bureaucrats, geniuses, lovers and my beautiful wife.
Having been most of the above myself I do not throw stones.
I would not change anything they have all made my life worthwhile.

'If your not dead, you still have a chance to make the rest of your life fantastic'
Millis 2000