Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Bruce Pollard opened the Pinacotheca gallery in May 1967, at 1 Fitzroy Street, a dark St Kilda bayside Edwardian mansion.

He relocated it to Bedggood's{{Citation |last=Hone |first=J. Ann |title=Bedggood, John Charles (1847–1911) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bedggood-john-charles-2963 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=26 August 2019}} Shoe Factory,University of Melbourne National Trust of Australia (Vic) classified historic building 3254 National Trust of Australia File No 3254City of Richmond Rates Book. 1883-1889 The uast. Melb. 21 March 1874, 22 September 1877. 21 May/ 1881. at 10 Waltham Place, Richmond, Melbourne in June 1970. An early owner of the building was notorious entrepreneur D. J. Henry 'Money' Miller.{{Cite web |url=http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search~S3?/ct/ct/1,3146,3204,B/frameset&FF=ct0036&1,1,/indexsort=- |title=Henry 'Money' Miller: his lands and dealings. Thesis(Undergrad)--University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning--Research Essay. |last=Oppenheim |first=D. J. |website=cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au |access-date=26 August 2019}}Appendix 4. Probate papers of Hon Henry Miller{{Citation |last=Mellor |first=Suzanne G. |title=Miller, Henry (1809–1888) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/miller-henry-4201 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=26 August 2019}}

The gallery closed in October 1999 and the business was de-registered in 2001,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238107617 |title=Corporations Law, Subsection 601AA(4) |newspaper=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette |issue=P4 |date=28 February 2001 |accessdate=7 March 2021 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} but re-opened in August 2002 for its very last exhibition, then closed permanently.{{Cite book |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/39488267 |title=[Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File] |last=Pinacotheca (Melbourne |first=Vic.) |language=English}}J. Sweet, Pinacotheca, Trevor Fuller, ‘Bruce Pollard and Pinacotheca: Psychological Content’, Artlink, vol.26, no.4, 2006, pp 92-93

After the demise of John Reed's Museum of Modern Art Australia in 1966, Pinacotheca became the only gallery in Melbourne showing experimental work in the late 1960s and 1970s,{{Cite book |title=Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997 |last1=Haese, Richard |last2=Brown, Mike, 1938-1997 (artist) |publisher=Miegunyah Press |isbn=978-0-522-86080-1 |date=2011}} exhibiting works by Art Language artists Ian Burn, Roger Cutforth and Mel Ramsden, and Dale Hickey's ironic 1969 work in which he commissioned a fencing contractor to install suburban-style fences of unpainted planks around the walls, of different heights tailored to the gallery's three separate rooms; the first only knee-high, the second intermediate and the third about chin level.{{Citation |last1=Hickey, Dale |title=Dale Hickey : life in a box |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35314000 |date=2008 |publisher=Ian Potter Museum of Art |access-date=22 August 2019 |last2=McAuliffe, Chris |last3=Zika, Paul}}

Pinacotheca's exhibitors were in the vanguard of Conceptualism; during The Field, the controversial show of Australian conceptual abstraction that opened the new premises of the National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Road, Pinacotheca, then in St Kilda, and concurrently with the NGV show, advertised 'for viewing' 15 of The Field artists in its stockroom alongside a solo by Rollin Schlicht;the artists being Peter Booth, G. S. Christmann, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Michael Johnson, Alun Leach-Jones, Tony McGillick, Alan Oldfield, Wendy Paramor, Robert Rooney, Rollin Schlicht, Eric Shirley, Dick Watkins, John White, and Normana White. See: advertisement, The Age 20 August 1968 page 4 then in the next year, Joseph Kosuth coordinated the "exhibition" of part of his Second Investigation at several international galleries, each chosen as being adventurous venues showing conceptual art, that included the Pasadena Art Museum, Leo Castelli Gallery (New York), and Pinacotheca. The work was initiated by, and was executed in, Kosuth's request of the gallery directors to advertise his Second Investigation in newspapers, with any further action being left to them. Bruce Pollard placed Kosuth's statements as advertisements in national newspapers, including The Age, The Sun News-Pictorial and Newsday from his own funds.{{Citation | author1=Green, Charles | title=The third hand : collaboration in art from conceptualism to postmodernism | date=2001 | publisher=University of Minnesota Press | isbn=978-0-8166-3712-6 }}

Pinacotheca's avant-garde stance was paralleled only by Sydney's Inhibodress and Watters galleries,{{Citation |last=Green, Charles |title=Pinacotheca: a private art history. (art gallery, Melbourne, Australia) |work=Art and Australia |volume=v34 |issue=n4 |pages=484(6) |date=22 March 1997 |publisher=Art and Australia Pty. Ltd |issn=0004-301X}} and indeed in 1977 a show Watters at Pinacotheca, during 4–28 May, showed Suzanna Archer, John Armstrong, George Barker, Jenny Barwell, Vivienne Binns, Hilary Burns, Tim Burns, James Clifford, Tony Coleing, Aleks Danko, John Delacour, Helen Eager, Jeanne Eager, Stephen Earle, Marr Grounds, Adrian Hall, Ian Howard, Noel Hutchison, Robert Jenyns, Ron Lambert, Richard Larter, Bruce Latimer, Frank Littler, Bridgid McLean, Marie McMahon, Patricia Moylan, Chris O'Doherty, Robert Parr, John Peart, Geoffrey Proud, David Rankin, Jon Rhodes, Ken Searle, Imants Tillers, Tony Tuckson, Vicki Varvaressos, Robin Wallace-Crabbe, and Max Watters.{{Citation |last=Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) |title=[Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485103 |access-date=26 August 2019}} In 1984 David Thomas described the work exhibited at Pinacotheca, Watters and Inhibodress:

{{blockquote|Already by 1970 Pinacotheca Gallery in Melbourne was a focus for reflective, quiet concern with everyday life, its processes and its visual banalities, as in the work of Robert Rooney and Dale Hickey. Watters Gallery in Sydney was a centre for the rougher, more casual, funky art of Mike Brown, Tony Coleing and John Armstrong. Inhibodress Sydney, 1970–72 was the place to see conceptual art, body art, performance and video by Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy.Daniel Thomas, Art & Life: Anything Goes, Art & Text, 1984.}}

Its spacious accommodation in Richmond was in impression not unlike a New York SoHo loft, and supported a similar sensibility;{{Cite web |url=https://content.acca.melbourne/uploads/2016/11/1_1991_Off-the-Wall-In-the-Air_A-Seventies-Selection_catalogue.pdf |title=Off the Wall In the Air: A Seventies Selection. Exhibition catalogue Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Gallery |last=Green, Marsh, Phipps |date=1991 |website=Australian Centre for Contemporary Art |access-date=22 August 2019}}

...a large concrete expanse, broken by scrubbed wooden pillars lay beyond the forbidding metal door. It was austerity and doggedness in timber, bricks and mortar, the aesthetic was primitive and cool, the art work was stripped of anything reassuring, and if the lights were off the visitor was expected to turn them on...Clive Murray White described the aesthetic of the gallery as having the "air of New York: if you took a photograph of your work, it would look like a major international avant-garde show." Jonathon Sweet.{{Citation | author1=Sweet, Jonathan D. (Jonathan David) | author2=Prendergast, Maria | author3=Pinacotheca (Art gallery) | title=Pinacotheca, 1967–1973 | date=1989 | publisher=Prendergast Publishers | isbn=978-0-9587850-2-0 }}

Its ambience was described by Ailsa O'Connor in a 1977 review as "austere, almost dungeon like",{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259733171 |title=Reviews |newspaper=Tribune |issue=2016 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 September 1977 |access-date=7 March 2021 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} but it was well suited to the display of large works by Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter and Robert Rooney who were some of the first artists represented there, in a group exhibition.

In 1971–72 the gallery operated as an artists' cooperative of around twenty, including Robert Hunter, Bill Anderson, Jonas Balsaitis, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Simon Klose and Robert Rooney, while Pollard was travelling overseas. During this period Mike Brown, Kevin Mortenson and Russell Drever, with numbers of others held the Dada-ist happening The Opening Leg Show Party-Bizarre. Patrick McCaughey, The Age art critic, described it as "more or less, according to taste, than clean good fun"

Pollard's early attitude to representing women artists was exposed in 1975 when Kiffy Rubbo, curator (1971–1979) at the avant-garde George Paton/Ewing Gallery asked Lesley Dumbrell to escort Lucy Lippard, a feminist critic of Pop Art and Minimalism who was then visiting from the United States as part of celebrations for International Women's Year. They visited galleries including Pinacotheca. When Pollard invited Lippard to view the stock room, she explained she was interested only in seeing women artists and he was unable to show her any. Pollard took umbrage and Lippard walked out, after berating him.{{Cite web |url=https://nattysolo.com/2018/04/11/finding-the-field/ |title=Finding the Field |date=11 April 2018 |website=nattysolo |language=en |access-date=21 August 2019}}{{Cite web |url=https://artguide.com.au/art-plus/kiffy-rubbo-curating-1970s |title=Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s |website=Art Guide Australia |language=en-US |access-date=21 August 2019}}

Over its 33-year history, more than 300 artists showed at Pinacotheca, including significant and challenging art by Australians Rosalie Gascoigne,{{Citation |last=Gascoigne, Rosalie |title=Papers of Rosalie Gascoigne, 1930-2011 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37303633 |date=1930}} James Gleeson,{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118145691 |title=A shocking kind of beauty |date=25 July 1987 |work=The Canberra Times |access-date=23 July 2019 |issue=18,922 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |volume=61 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}} Bill Henson, Tim Johnson, Tony Tuckson and Stelarc. Ti Parks was the last artist to show there in August 2002.{{Cite web |url=https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/2672/ti-parks-recent-work-at-pinacotheca/ |title=Ti Parks recent work at Pinacotheca |website=Artlink Magazine |language=en |access-date=23 July 2019}}

An example of the often hermetic austerity of some exhibitions was Hunter's 1970 solo show for which he stencilled 11 grids onto the gallery's walls with grey paint, explaining later that : "I want to make something alien - alien to myself" and described his intention to avoid the creation of objets d'art.Robert Hunter quoted in Gary Catalano, 'Robert Hunter', Art and Australia, 17/1, March 1979, p.78 As minimal and more cryptic still, conceptually, was Robert Rooney/Simon Klose (Collaboration), from 10–20 August 1972, consisting of banks of deadpan photographic prints of urban landscape and interiors, with bluestone pitchers installed in grids on the gallery floor. Critic Patrick McCaughey, announced it a symptom of ‘the demise of the avant-garde into the easy, the predictable, the familiar,’Patrick McCaughey, ‘Review: His Brilliance Breaks Edwardian Cocoon’, The Age, 16 August 1972, p. 2. while Alan McCulloch reported that it was 'Everything or Perhaps Nothing.'Alan McCulloch, ‘Everything or Perhaps Nothing’, The Herald, 9 August 1972, p. 25 They were unaware that the defiant conceptual premise of the show was Klose's proposition that the pair should each produce work for the other—in the other's style and presenting it as theirs—and yet reveal the fact to no-one, even the critics, when questioned by visitors to the gallery, bar a few intimate friends.David Homewood 'RR/SK: Public Exhibition'. In {{Citation |last=Hughes, Helen (publisher) |title=Discipline |date=2011 |publisher=Helen Hughes |issn=1839-082X}}

In an anti-establishment gesture, documentation and catalogues were deliberately kept to a minimum and consequently parts of Pinacotheca's exhibition history is limited and some dates of shows are only approximate, while precise details are being assembled by Trevor Fuller, custodian and convenor of the Pinacotheca archive project.{{Cite web|last=Finch|first=Maggie|date=25 September 2014|title=Information exchange: Robert Rooney and Roger Cutforth {{!}} NGV|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/information-exchange-robert-rooney-and-roger-cutforth/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au|page=notes}}

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• 1967: Sunday 25 June – Friday 14 July. David Gillison, PaintingsMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 28 June 1967Lansell, Ross: Nation Review, 15 July 1967, p 20 & 21
• 1967: Sunday 30 July – Friday 18 August 1967. John Martin, PaintingsMcCulloch: The Herald, 2 August 1967, p25
• 1967: Sunday 20 August – Friday 1 September. Judy Lorraine, CeramicsMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 27 August 1967, p6McCulloch: The Herald 23 August 1967, p39
• 1967: Sunday 3 September – Friday 22 September. June Stephenson, PaintingsMcCulloch: The Herald, 6 September 1967, p24
• 1967: Sunday 24 September – Friday 13 October. Margaret Dredge, PaintingsAlan McCulloch 'Landscape Revolution'. The Herald, 27 September 1967Patrick McCaughey 'A Painter Apart.' The Age, 27 September 1967Harry Blake 'Margaret Dredge exhibition an eye-catcher.' The Sun, 5 October 1967
• 1967: Sunday 15 October 3 – Friday 3 November. Two Printmakers: Normana Wight and C. TolleyMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald 18 November 1967, p32
• 1967: Sunday 12 November – Wednesday 29 November. Brian Kewley, PaintingsMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald 15 November, p31
• 1967: Sunday 3 December – Sunday 24 December. Bruce Petty, Cartoon Collages, Drawings
• 1968: February – March. Trevor Kretchmer, Magic Clowns, PaintingsLansell, Ross: Nation, 16 March 1968, p18Mcculloch, Alan: The Herald, 28 February 1968, p30
• 1968: March. Erica Baneth-Goodey, Sculpture, bronze and aluminium casting; relief casting and woodworkMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald 27 March 1968
• 1968: April. Barry Cleavin, Graphics and Robert Trauer, PrintsMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald 24 April 1968, p15
• 1968: 14 May – 26 May. John Davis, Margaret Dredge, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Michael Johnson, Alun Leach-Jones, Ken Leveson, Victor Majzner, Tony McGillick, Dick Watkins, Normana Wight, The Renting Collection, Paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture.Lansell, Ross: Nation, 25 May 1968, p20 (mentions Hickey and Johnson in Renting Collection)
• 1968: June. Vynol Students' ExpoMculloch, Alan: The Herald 5 June 1968, p27
• 1968: 18 June – 2 July. Robert Hall, PaintingsMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 19 June 1968McCulloch, Alan: 19 June 1968
• 1968: 7 July – 24 July. Martha Ash, Dorothy Baker, Alexander Berezowsky, Roy Fauvel, Erika Huppert, Karlis Mednis, 3 ARTS GROUPMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald 17 July 1968 p25
• 1968: 27 July – ? August. Max Cullen, Black Room Collection, rare stamps, prints and metal sculpturesMcCaughey, Patrick: 31 July 1968McCulloch, Alan: The Herald 7 August 1968, p33Warren, Alan: The Sun, 31 July 1968, p24
• 1968: August, Allen DavidThe Sun 7 August 1968, p36
• 1968: August. Pat Shannon, PaintingsMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 7 August 1968, p 33The Sun: 31 July 1968 p24The Age (?) Alan Warren: 7 August 1968 p16
• 1968: 25 August – 13 September. Rollin Schlicht, Paintings, and David Allen, PaintingsThe Sun 7 August 1968, p36McCaughey, Patrick: The Age 28 August 1968
• 1968: 15 September – 4 October. Alan Oldfield, DrawingsLansell, Ross: Nation 28 September 1968McCaughey, Patrick: The Age 25 September 1968The Herald, 18 September 1968The Sun 18 September 1968, p17
• 1968: 6 October – 18 October. Tony McGillick, Paintings and gouacheLansell, Ross: Nation 26 October 1968, p17 & 18McCaughey: The Age 9 October 1968
• 1968: October. Ti Parks Kevin 'Bulldog' Citizen and Claudia, Mixed mediaLansell, Ross: Nation, 9 November 1968, p21
• 1968: 20 October – 1 November. Bill Gregory, Screenprints on glass and drawingsMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 23 October 1968Lansell, Ross: Nation, 9 November, p21 & 21.
• 1968: 3 November – 15 November, Anne Grahame, Ronald Greenaway, Michael Smither, June Stepenson, The Essentialists, Paintings and drawingsThe Sun, 6 November 1968, p24
• 1968: 18 – 29 November Sandra Leveson and Alan Warren, Recent printsThe Sun, 20 November 1968, p23
• 1968: November – January 1969. Ti Parks, Three installationsLansell, Ross: Nation 9 November 1968
• 1968: December. Judy Lorraine, Alan Warren, CeramicsThe Sun, 4 December 1968, p24
• 1969 3 March — 21 March. Brian Kewley, PaintingsLansell, Ross: NationMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 1969Warren, Alan : The Sun, 5 March 1969 p24
• 1969 24 March — 12 April. Peter Booth, PaintingsLansell, Ross: Nation, 5 April 1969McCaughey, Patrick: The Age, n.dMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald ?, n.d.{{Cite web |url=https://content.acca.melbourne/uploads/2016/11/1991_The-Sublime-Imperative_catalogue.pdf |title=The Sublime Imperative:Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Brent Harris, Roger Kemp, Ross Moore |last=Kronenberg |first=Simeon |date=November 1991 |website=The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art |access-date=22 August 2019}}
• 1969 15 April — 26 April. Ron BenceLansell, Ross: Nation, 3 May 1969McCaughey, Patrick: The Age, 30 April 1969, p2Warren, Alan: The Sun, 16 April 1969, p24
• 1969 29 April — 15 May. Jeremy Barrett, PaintingsMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 1969Warren, Allan: The Sun, 30 April 1969, p21
• 1969 18 May — 31 May. Margaret Worth, Paintings and drawingsThe Age, 21 May 1969McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 21 May 1969Warren, Allan: The Sun, 21 May 1969, p24
• 1969 4 June — 29 June. Peter Davidson, SculpturesLansell, Ross: Nation, 28 June 1969, p18McCaughey, Patrick: The Age, 4 June 1969, p8MCulloch, Alan: The Herald 1969Warren, Allan: The Sun, 4 June, p24
• 1969 23 June — 4 July Garrey Foulkes, PaintingsLansell, Ross: Nation, 12 July 1969, p12McCaughey, Patrick: The Age, 25 June 1969, p18
• 1969 7 July — 25 July. Robert Rooney, Canine Capers and Cereal Bird Beaks, PaintingsMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age 16 July 1969McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, July 1969Warren, Allan: The Sun, 16 July 1969, p20
• 1969 28 July — 7 August. The Two Victors; Victor Majzner, Victor Seredin, PaintingsMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 30 July 1969Warren, Allan: The Sun, 6 August 1969, p18{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article261569310 |title=Watercolour on display |newspaper=The Australian Jewish News |volume=LII |issue=28 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=21 March 1986 |accessdate=7 March 2021 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1969 10 August — 22 August. Ian Burn, Roger Cutforth, Mel Ramsden, Prints and photographsCatalano, G: The Bandaged Image; a Study of Australian Artists' Books, August 1969, p291Lansell, Ross: Nation, 23 August 1969, p19 and also in an aside in Nation 6 September 1969, p18Rooney, Robert: The Australian 3 November 1990Stephen, Ann: Black Box of Conceptual ArtWarren, Alan: The Sun, 20 August, p30{{Cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/revisiting-what-shocked-the-art-world-in-1969-20130814-2rwpy.html |title=Revisiting what shocked the art world in 1969 |last=Galvin |first=Nick |date=14 August 2013 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |access-date=21 August 2019}}
• 1969 24 August — 5 September. Trevor Vickers
• 1969 8 September — 19 September. George JohnsonMcCaughey, Patrick: The Age, 10 September 1969McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, September 1969Warren, Alan: The Sun, 11 September 1969, p24 (George Johnson only)
• 1969 2 September — 3 October. Michael Goss
• 1969 6 October — 17 October. Warren Knight, Concrete poetry, paintingGuberek, Peter: The Sun, 7 October 1969, p19Lansell, Ross: Nation Review, 1 November 1969
• 1969 22 October — 31 October. Dale Hickey, Fences, InstallationsAdam, Rosemary: Art monthly, Number 22, July 1989, p9, 10,11; Catalano, G, 'The dailiness of life: Dale Hickey interviewed by Gary Catalano', Art & Australia, vol. 31, no. 3, 1994, p.358Galbally, Ann; The Age 1969Lansell, Ross: Nation, 15 November 1969, p20 & 21Lansell, Ross: Nation, 13 December 1969, p17Larkin, John: The Age, 23 October 1969McAuliffe, Chris: Don't Fence Me In: Artists and Suburbia in the 1960s, in Beasts of Suburbia, edited by Sarah Ferber, Chris Healy, Chris McAuliffe, MUP 1994McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 29 October 1969The Sun, 31 October 1969, p16
• 1969 31 October — 14 November. Joseph Kosuth, The second investigation. 15 locations 1969/1970; art as idea; the communication of ideasGreen, Charles: Visual Arts and Culture, n.d, p178-181{{Citation | author1=Green, Charles | title=The third hand : collaboration in art from conceptualism to postmodernism | date=2001 | publisher=University of Minnesota Press | isbn=978-0-8166-3712-6 }}McCulloch, Alan: The Herald; The Age: 12 November 1969
• 1970 Monday 8 June- Saturday 27 June. Peter Booth, Mike Brown, Peter Davidson, Bill Gregory, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Kevin Mortensen, Ti Parks, Robert Rooney, Rollin Slicht, Trevor Vickers, Painting, Sculpture, InstallationGalbally, Ann: The Age, 10 June 1970, p2Haese, Richards: "Permant Revolution. Mike Brown" , p167, Miegunyuh, MUPLansell, Ross: Nation, 11 June 1970, p18McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 1 JulySmith, Terry: Other Voices, Vol 1, Number 2, August/September 1970 (refers to Schlicht, Parks and Vickers)Sweet, Jonathan: PinacothecaWarren, Alan: The Sun, 10 June, p48
• 1970 July. Rollin Schlicht, PaintingGalbally, Ann: The Age, n.dLansell, Ross: Nation, 11 July 1970, p18 & 25 July 1970, p19McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 1 July 1970Plant, Margaret: The Age, 11 July 1970, The Sun, 2 July 1970, p21
• 1970 July. Graham Mathews, PaintingLynn, Elwyn: The Bulletin, 15 August 1970, p40McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 8 July 1970, p26The Sun, 8 July 1970, p30
• 1970 July. Robert Hunter, Stencil wall paintings (11 grids 6ftx6ft stencilled on walls)Galbally, Ann: The Age, 29 July 1970Lansell, Ross: Nation, "Paintings for a Fortnight", 8 August 1970, p16 & 17 Lynn, Elwyn: The Bulletin, 15 August 1970, p40McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, "Graphics and White Walls", 29 July 1970, p17Warren, Alan: The Sun, 5 August 1970, p23.{{Cite web |url=http://moma.org/d/c/exhibition_catalogues/W1siZiIsIjMwMDE4NTEyMyJdLFsicCIsImVuY292ZXIiLCJ3d3cubW9tYS5vcmcvY2FsZW5kYXIvZXhoaWJpdGlvbnMvMjUxMCIsImh0dHA6Ly9tb21hLm9yZy9jYWxlbmRhci9leGhpYml0aW9ucy8yNTEwP2xvY2FsZT1lbiIsImkiXV0.pdf?sha=b8ea8eada2440083 |title=Eight contemporary artists : [exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 9, 1974 – January 5, 1975] |last=Licht |first=Jennifer |website=MoMA exhibition catalogues |access-date=22 August 2019}}
• 1970 Tuesday 11 August-Saturday 22 August. Ross Grounds, Seven Steel Frames, Sculpture/ InstallationLansell, Ross: Nation, 22 August 1970, p18Plant, Margaret: The Age, n.d 1970Warren, Alan: The Sun, 12 August 1970, p30
• 1970 Tuesday 25 August- Saturday 5 September. Peter Booth, Painting and DrawingGalbally, Ann: The Age, n.d 1970Lansell, Ross: Nation, 5 September 1970, p20McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, n.d 1970The Sun, 26 August 1970, p38
• 1970 1 September-18 September. Denis Spiteri, The Incredible, The Baroque, Riddle Suite, PaintingsLansell, Ross: Nation, 19 September 1970, p20McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 9 September 1970Warren, Alan: The Sun, 9 September 1970, p44
• 1970 Tuesday 8-Saturday 19 September, Robert Rooney, Paintings and PhotographsGalbally, Ann: The Age 1970Lansell, Ross: Nation, 19 September 1970, p20Warren, Alan: The Sun, 9 September 1970, p44. McCulloch, Alan: in Letter From Australia, 1970, in a European journal talks of Pinacotheca exhibitions, but only specifically of Robert Rooney and his "kitchen garden" themes paintings.
• 1970 Burn, Ian
• 1970 22 September-3 October. Dale Hickey, 90 White Walls, PhotographyBoles, Bernard: Nation, n.d 1970Galbally, Ann: The Age, 23 September 1970Lansell, G.R: Nation, 11 July 1970The Sun, 23 September 1970, p55c
• 1970 Tuesday 22 September-Saturday 3 October. Jonas Balsaitis, Image of Mind, PaintingsGalbally, Ann: The Age, 23 September 1970McCulloch, Alan: The HeraldWarren, Alan: The Sun, 23 September 1970, p55c
• 1970 22 September-3 October. Robert Rooney, Superknits and Snaps, Painting and PhotographyGalbally, Ann: The Age, 23 September 1970Lansell, Ross: Nation, 19 September 1970McCaughey, Patrick: The Age, n.d. 1970 "Balson-Best in a Decade"
• 1970 Tuesday 6 October Saturday 17 October. Bill GregoryThe Sun, 7 October 1970, p36
• 1970 Tuesday 20 October - Saturday 31 October. Peter D. Cole, SculptureThe Sun, 22 October 1970, p36
• 1970 Tuesday 17 November-Saturday 28 November. Peter Petrucelli, Paintings Galbally, Ann: The Age, 28 November 1970McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 17 November 1970
• 1970 Tuesday 1 December-Saturday 12 December. Simon Klose, Photographic Concept of The Cube, PhotographyMcCulloch, Alan: The Herald
• 1970 Tuesday 3 November-Saturday 14 November. Robert Hall, PaintingsGalbally, Ann: The Age, 11 November 1970Warren, Alan: The Sun, 4 November 1970
• 1970 3 November-14 November. Alex Selenitsch, 8 Monotones, Silk screened cards in envelope/concrete poetryGalbally, Ann: The Age, 11 November 1970Warren, Alan: The Sun, 4 November 1970reproduced in Aspect Art and Literature, vol 4 autumn '76, p48-52.
• 1970 Tuesday 17 November-Saturday 28 November. Mike Brown, Collages and printsGalbally, Ann: The Age, 28 November 1970McCulloch, Alan: The Herald, 17 November 1970see also mention p166 &167 in Richard Haese's book "Permanent Revolution: Mike Brown"
• 1970 Tuesday 1 December-Saturday 12 December. William Anderson, Work in Progress 1969-1970, Paintings, Spray Painting, text, cardboard models, drawings, street plans, plexiglass modelGalbally, Ann: The AgeMcCulloch, Alan : The HeraldWarren, Alan: The Sun, 2 December 1970, p47.

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• 1970: Robert Rooney: War savings streetsRooney, R. (1970). War savings streets / Robert Rooney. Richmond [Vic.]: Pinacotheca.
• 1970, 25 Aug—5 Sept: Peter Booth solo exhibitionGalbally, A., ‘A reward from the minimum’ in The Age, Melbourne, 2 September 1970
• 1971: 4 Conceptual Artists: Mel Ramsden, Ian Burn, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Rooney, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, with catalogue by Rooney{{Cite web |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/85927/ |title=Pinacotheca (c. 1971) issue 1, edited by Robert Rooney, published by Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne (c. 1971) |access-date=24 July 2019}}
• 1971, May: Welcome to Planet X Mike Brown
• 1971: Kevin Mortenson performance The Seagull Salesman, his Goods and Visitors or Figures of Identification
• 1971: Robert Hunter
• 1971: Peter Booth
• 1971: Wes Placek (solo)
• 1972 Jonas Balsaitis: Metron painting series
• 1972: Film Construction. Installation by Colin Suggett with Peter Cole
• 1972: The Opening Leg Show Party-Bizarre: Mike Brown, Kevin Mortenson and Russell Drever
• 1972, 10–20 Aug: RR/SK: Public Exhibition
• 1972: Wes Placek (solo){{Cite web|url=http://wesplacek.com/artworks/Wes-Placek-at-Pinacotheca-1972.jpg|title=Wes Placek at Pinacotheca|last=Placek|first=Wes|date=1972|website=Wes Placek, Artist: Photography 1972 to 2016|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
• 1973: Wes Placek (solo)
• 1973: Robert Hunter
• 1973: John Nixon (solo){{Cite web |url=http://hamishmckay.co.nz/artists/John_Nixon |title=John Nixon |website=hamishmckay.co.nz |access-date=21 August 2019}}
• 1975: Jonas Balsaitis: ProcesProcess a film
• 1975: Jim Paterson{{Cite web |url=https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/jim-paterson |title=Jim Paterson, National Portrait Gallery |website=www.portrait.gov.au |access-date=21 August 2019}}
• 1975: Peter Booth
• 1976: Jonas Balsaitis: Drawings
• 1977, 4–28 May: Watters at Pinacotheca
• 1977: Jonas Balsaitis: Space Time Structures: film
• 1977, to 24 September: George Michelakakis{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259733171 |title=Reviews |newspaper=Tribune |issue=2016 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 September 1977 |accessdate=7 March 2021 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1978: Robert Hunter and American Minimalist Carl Andre: two-person exhibitions{{Citation |last1=Hunter, Robert |title=Robert Hunter |date=2018 |publisher=National Gallery of Victoria |isbn=978-1-925432-49-7 |last2=Devery, Jane |last3=National Gallery of Victoria (issuing body)}}
• 1978 Jonas Balsaitis: Artists in Schools Painting Exhibition
• 1979: Magda Matwiejew first solo show.
• 1981 Jonas Balsaitis: Paintings
• 1982 Jonas Balsaitis: Erratica: film
• 1982, to 14 April: Ben LaycockListing {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259561002 |title=what's on |newspaper=Tribune |issue=2231 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=14 April 1982 |accessdate=7 March 2021 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1981: Rosalie Gascoigne* 1981: Ray Hughes Gallery at Pinacotheca, Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond, Vic.) in 1981{{Cite book |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/9861800 |title=Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, 4th - 18th April, 1981 at Pinacotheca |last1=Ray Hughes Gallery (Brisbane |first1=Qld.) |last2=Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond |first2=Vic.) |date=1981 |language=English}}
• 1981: James Clayden Paintings{{Citation |last=Clayden, J |title=Art from elsewhere |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191742358 |date=17 May 1989 |access-date=24 July 2019}}
• 1982: Steven Cox
• 1982: Magda Matwiejew, Paintings
• 1983: James Clayden
• 1984: David Wadelton: Paintings
• 1984: Rosalie Gascoigne
• 1984: Ken Searle and Frank Littler joint show
• 1984, November: Robert Klippel: bronze sculptures and works on paper
• 1985: Selected works from the last two decades
• 1985: Thirty Years On: a survey of works on paper
• 1985 Jonas Balsaitis: Paintings
• 1985: James Clayden
• 1985, 29 May–15 June: Jill Kahans{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article261654387 |title=ART IN TUNE |newspaper=The Australian Jewish News |volume=L1 |issue=35 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 May 1985 |accessdate=7 March 2021 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1985: Steven Cox
• 1986: Geoffrey Bartlett, sculpture.
• 1986: David Wadelton Paintings and works on paper
• 1986 26 July-23 August: Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84Henson, B., Heyward, M., & Pinacotheca. (1986). Bill Henson : Pinacotheca, 26 July-23 August 1986 / essay by Michael Heyward. [Richmond, Vic]: Pinacotheca.
• 1986, August/September: Three designers: Biltmoderne at Pinacotheca: Architecture, Interiors, Furniture{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJRUAAAAMAAJ |title='Three designers: Biltmoderne at Pinacotheca: Architecture, Interiors, Furniture'. In Studio International |date=1986 |publisher=Studio Trust |language=en}}Biltmoderne Pty. Ltd, & Pinacotheca Art Gallery. (1986). Biltmoderne at Pinacotheca. Hawthorn, Vic.: Biltmoderne Pty.
• 1987, 12 September - 6 October: Trefor Prest : Sculpture{{Cite book|last1=Prest|first1=Trefor|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223274799|title=Sculpture|last2=Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum|last3=Pinacotheca (Art gallery)|date=1988|publisher=Castlemaine Art Gallery|location=Castlemaine, Vic.|language=English|oclc=223274799}}
• 1987: Elizabeth Jess PaintingsThe Power of Nature by Elizabeth McCarthy (nee Jess) Published Sid Harta Melbourne 2017 www.sidharta.com.au
• 1987: Melinda Harper{{Cite web |url=https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/colour-sensation-works-melinda-harper |title=Colour Sensation |date=10 August 2015 |website=Heide Museum of Modern Art |language=en |access-date=21 August 2019}}
• 1988: David Wadelton: Paintings and works on paper
• 1988 Jonas Balsaitis: Paintings
• 1988, 29 June-13 August: Group show Simon Klose, Dale Hickey, Robert Rooney, Trefor Prest, Robert Hunter, Rosalie Gascoigne, David Wadelton, James Gleeson, Douglas Green nand others{{Cite web|title=Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485103|access-date=2021-08-22|website=National Library of Australia}}
• 1988, August-1 September: James Meldrum{{Cite news |last=McIntyre |first=Arthur |date=1 September 1988 |title=Meldrum links old and new Antipodes surrealism |pages=14 |work=The Age}}
• 1989: Tony Tuckson: an exhibition {{Citation |last=National Library of Australia |title=Australian national bibliography : ANB |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/228340062 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}Tuckson, T., & Pinacotheca. (1989). Tony Tuckson, paintings : An exhibition. Richmond, Vic.: Pinacotheca.
• 1989 Jonas Balsaitis: Etchings
• 1989: David Wadelton: Paintings and drawings
• 1990: Dennis Spiteri : "in pursuit of ecstasy" : A retrospective, 1970-1990Spiteri, D., & Pinacotheca. (1990). Dennis Spiteri : "in pursuit of ecstasy" : A retrospective, 1970-1990. Richmond, Vic.: Pinacotheca.
• 1990 Jonas Balsaitis: Paintings
• 1990: Trefor Prest, Melbourne Festival, September–OctoberPeter Hill, "Sculpture with an odd feeling," The Age, Wednesday 19 Sep 1990, p.14Jan Blensdorf, The Age Friday 28 Sep 1990, p.30
• 1991: Contemporary Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond (group exhibition)
• 1992: Andrew Taylor Recent Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond (solo){{Cite web |url=https://issuu.com/olsenirwin/docs/andrew_taylor_-_pollination_2016 |title=Andrew Taylor - Pollination 2016 |website=Issuu |language=en |access-date=24 July 2019}}
• 1992: David Wadleton: Paintings
• 1993: David Wadleton: Drawings
• 1994: David Wadleton: Paintings
• 1994: Trefor Prest sculpture, Sept–OctAdvertising, The Age Thursday 22 Sep 1994, p.19
• 1994: Works on Paper by Valerio Ciccone, Pinacotheca, 1994
• 1996: Works by Valerio Ciccone
• 1996: David Wadleton: Paintings
• 1996: James GleesonGleeson, J., Pollard, B., & Pinacotheca Art Gallery. (1996). James Gleeson : Recent paintings. [Richmond, Vic.]: Pinacotheca Gallery.

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