Biography
1943 Born Auckland, New Zealand
1960-64 Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
1965 Began a carreer in advertising while continuing to paint & exhibit
1995 Began painting full-time
1997 Travelling Retrospective Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste
2005 Antartica Residency, Invitational Artist Programme
2009 The monograph Dick Frizzell The Painter, published by Random House NZ
2009 Designed the cover & illustrations for The Great New Zealand Songbook
2011 Commissioned to create official artwork for 2011 Rugby World Cup
2011 Commissioned by Random House NZ to write It's All About The Image
2012 Completed a series of paintings to poems by Sam Hunt
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
Up the Road, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2015 Up the Road, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2014 Up the Road, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington
2013 The Dance of the Hooligans, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2011 Rugby, Rhyming and Here, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2010 The Gloves Are Off, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2009 Treasures from a Skull Cave, Black Barn Art Gallery, Hawkes Bay
2008 Walking back to Happiness, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2004 The Pumpkin is a Red Herring, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2003 Please keep us safe while we sleep by the fire, Hawkes Bay Art Museum
2002 Pleased to remember, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2002 What is this, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
2001 Welcome to Sunny Hawkes Bay, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2000 Home Truths, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1999 Paintings, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1998 Patched Up, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington
1998 What I Yam - The Junk Mail Narratives, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1997 Dick Frizzell, Portrait of a Serious Artiste, Wellington City Gallery
1997 Dick Frizzell, Portrait of a Serious Artiste, Auckland Art Gallery
1997 Dick Frizzell, Portrait of a Serious Artiste, Dunedin PUblic Art Gallery
1997 Vanity Vanity, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1997 Popova to Remuera, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1997 Summer Muster, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington
1997 Construction from Freedom, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1997 Lost and Found, Lesley Kriesler Gallery, New Plymouth
1996 Line and Point, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1996 Ambitious Objects, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington
1995 P.O.P. Past on Paper, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1995 Hoi Te Toi Te, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1994 No Figure Necessary, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1994 European Descendant, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1993 Hook, Line and Sinker, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1993 The Agua Amarga Suite, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1992 South Island Landscapes, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1992 Tiki, Works on Paper at Salamander Gallery, Arts Centre, Christchurch
1991 What's the Big Idea? Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1991 South Island Landscapes, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1990 Big Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1990 Images for Lovers, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland
1989 Lithographs, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1986 Heads On, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland
1985 Eh! Easy, Hard, Impossible, Carnegie Gallery, Dunedin
1984 Escape From Salvation, RKS Gallery, Auckland
1984 Still Lives, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland
1982 Still Lives, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
1981 Everybodies Business, RKS Gallery, Auckland
1980 Home is Where the Art Is, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
1979 Illustrations of America (The Dancing Chicken Show) Brooke Gifford Gallery
1977 Putting it all on the Lion, Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1976 A-fish-ial Exhibition, Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Significant Works, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2014 ART101: A Beginner's Guide, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
2014 Its Not Dry Yet, Chambers@241, Christchurch
2013 New Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2012 New Year, New Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery Stand, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Painting the Hunt, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington
2010 John Leech & Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue, Auckland
2009 Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2008 Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2006 Tiki Tour, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei
2004 Telecom Prospect: New Art New Zealand, Wellington City Gallery
2002 The Cartoon Show, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2001 Screens, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1998 Landscapes (with Karl Maughan), Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1998 Dream Collectors, Museum of New Zealand Wellington, & Akl Art Gallery
1997 Catalogue Exhibition, Milford House Gallery, Dunedin
1997 Figurative Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1996 Design Love Story, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
1995 Stop Making Sense (with Shane Cotton), Wellington City Gallery
1995 The Artistic Process, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1995 Gaugain Tribute, RKS Gallery, Auckland
1995 A Peculiar Practice: 40 New Zealand Painters, Wellington City Gallery
1995 Visa Gold Art Award, Wellington City Gallery
1995 Ho Ho Ho, Christmas Group Show, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington
1994 Landscape Survey, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1994 Hammond, Frizzell, Stevenson, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1994 The Spectrum Collection, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1994 Visa Gold Award Finalist, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
1994 Artist's Wallpaper, The Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland
1994 Artists Fax, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1994 Elvis in Geyserland, Rotorua Art Gallery, Rotorua
1993 Artists Ceramics, Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland
1993 Christmas Giving, Artspace Gallery, Auckland
1993 Helping the Recovery, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland
1992 Big Green, Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt
1992 Real Surreal, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1991 Wild West Show, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland
1990 Art and Organised Labour, Wellington City Gallery
Selected Collections
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu
The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Selected Bibliography
Grant Smithies, 'Accidental Artist' in Sunday Star Times Magazine, 21 September 2008, pp14-18
Paul Little, 'Being Dick Frizzell', Audi Magazine, December 2002, pp52-57
Hamish Keith, 'Out of Africa', Sunday Star Times, 29 September 2002
E.Caughey & John Gow, Contemporary New Zealand Art 2, 1999, p60
Michael Dunn, Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, 1996, pp64-67
Gregory O'Brien, Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters, 1996, pp36-47
Robert Leonard & John McCormack, Beyond the Pale: Dick Frizzell's Indigenuity, Art and Asia Pacific, June 1993, pp36-41
D.H. Binney, 'Trust myself not to go wrong: Dick Frizzell's Tiki show', Art New Zealand 66, Autumn 1993, pp70-73
D.H. Binney, 'Landscape reassessed: some Auckland artists', Art New Zealand 48, Spring 1988, pp72-74
D.H. Binney, 'Testing Reality, the Paintings of Dick Frizzell', Art New Zealand 37, Summer 1985, pp26-31
Wystan Curnow, 'Speech Balloons and Conversation Bubbles', And 4, October 1985, pp125-149
Francis Pound, New Image: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1983
Jim & Mary Barr, Contemporary New Zealand Painters, Vol 1, 1980, pp80-85
