Carl Plate
Carl Plate 1909-1977
Carl Plate was a leading figure and artist in the post-war modern art movement in Australia. He ran the Notanda Gallery in Sydney's Rowe Street (1940-1974) and was a prolific collage artist and painter.
His work is represented in the national and state galleries and in private collections in Australia, Europe and America.
After studying art in Sydney and London and extensive travels in Mexico, America, Europe, Scandinavia and USSR, Carl Plate experimented with ideas and materials. His highly original work charts a course of modern art across the mid-twentieth century.
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Carl Plate: The Last Exhibition He Never Had 1971-1976, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
2017
Carl Plate Hard Colour: Paris Works 1970-1971, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
2012
Carl Plate: Surrealism to Abstraction & Beyond, Painting & Collage 1940-1976, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2010
Carl Plate: 60s & 70s Paintings & Collage, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Carl Plate: Collage 1938-1976, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney
Carl Plate: Paintings and Collage from the 1970s, Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2006
Carl Plate: Works From the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2006
Carl Plate: Paintings from the 50s, 60s and 70s, Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
1987
Carl Plate, Painters Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate: Works on Paper 1939-1957, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Adolphe Plate & Carl Plate, Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Sydney
1984
Carl Plate 1909 - 1977, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1981
Carl Plate: Paintings - Paris 1970-71, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate, Zanders Bond Gallery, Melbourne
Carl Plate, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1979
Carl Plate, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate, Zanders Bond Gallery, Melbourne
1978
Carl Plate, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate, Zanders Bond Gallery, Melbourne
1977
Project 22: Carl Plate 1909 – 1977, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1974
Carl Plate, Town Gallery, Brisbane
1972
Carl Plate, Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
1971
Carl Plate, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, November
1969
Carl Plate, Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1968
Carl Plate, Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1967
Carl Plate, Lewers Gallery, Emu Plains
Carl Plate, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1965
Carl Plate, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1964
Carl Plate, Gallery A, Melbourne
1963
Carl Plate, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1962
Carl Plate, Knapik Gallery, New York
1961
Carl Plate: Some Paintings for New York, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
Carl Plate, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1960
Carl Plate, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Drawings & Small Paintings by Carl Plate, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
Carl Plate and Elwyn Lynn, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1959
Carl Plate Paintings 1957-59, Leicester Galleries, London
1958
Carl Plate: Paintings 1957-58, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
Carl Plate, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle
1956
Carl Plate: Paintings 1954-6, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Carl Plate, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1954
Carl Plate, Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
Carl Plate, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1953
Paintings by Carl Plate, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
1952
Carl Plate, Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
Carl Plate, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1951
Carl Plate, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Carl Plate, John Martins Gallery, Adelaide
Carl Plate, Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne
1941
Carl Plate, Notanda Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Summer 2023-2024, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
Abstraction 23, Charles Nodram Gallery, Melbourne
2022
A life of art – from the Estate of Jocelyn Plate, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
2021
Sydney Contemporary, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
2020
Shadow Catchers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Hazelhurst 20 Years, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Gymea
2017
Emu Island: Modernism in Place, Penrith Regional Art Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Sydney
2016
Art of Parts: Collage and Assemblage from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2015
Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Sydney 6: Hinders, Lewers, Plates, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle (Aus)
2014
SNO 109: Photography, Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
2010
Planned for Progress, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney
2009
Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Curating the COFA Collection, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2008
Australian Surrealism: The Agipatos/Wilson Collection, National Gallery Australia, Canberra
2004
Australian Surrealism: The Agipatos/Wilson Collection, S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
1999
The Antipodeans: Challenge & Response in Australian Art 1955-1965, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1993
Surrealism: Revolution by Night, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1991
New Directions 1952-1962, Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Sydney
1980
Abstract Expressionism in Sydney 1956 -1964, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1968
Exposition des Ouvres des Residents, Cité des Arts, Paris
1967
Australian Painting, Expo ’67, Montreal
1966
Aspects of Australian Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1963-65
Australian Painting Today, Australian and European tour
1963
Australian Art, National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Survey 1963: Paintings from Galleries in all States, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne
1962
Australian Painting, Adelaide Arts Festival, and Tate Gallery, London
Commonwealth Art Today, Commonwealth Institute, London
1961
Contemporary Australian Painting, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Survey 1: Sydney Avant-Garde Exhibition, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Painting from the Pacific, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland
9 Sydney, David Jones Gallery, Sydney
Nine Sydney Artists, Gallery A, Melbourne
Australian Art, Burr Gallery, Los Angeles
Australian Contemporary Art, Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
1959
Matson Lines Exhibition of Australian Art (San Francisco and Pacific)
1956
Contemporary Australian Painting (Pacific tour)
1951-60
Society of Artists exhibitions, Sydney
1944
Some Recent Australian Painting, National Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1941-66
Contemporary Art Society (CAS) Annual exhibitions, Sydney
Major Collections
National Gallery of Australia
Reserve Bank of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
Tasmanian Art Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Cornell University
University of Sydney
University of New South Wales
Melbourne University
Australian National University
Art Bank