Born Wagga Wagga, 1943   Widely recognised as one of Australia's finest landscape painters, JEFF MAKIN has exhibited and is collected, nationally and internationally. He is represented in most state, and many corporate and regional gallery collections throughout Australia.
	On completion of his studies at the National Art School (1961-65), Makin's career was launched with his first show at Frank Watters, Sydney, in 1966. Since then he has had over 50 solo exhibitions, including successful one-man shows at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, and group exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. He has won a number of major art prizes including Brisbane's rich and prestigious Tattersall's Club Prize for Landscape. Makin has also been commissioned for a number of large-scale murals including the VIP Lounge New Sydney International Airport, the Crown Casino Melbourne and a huge 11 metre high sublime waterfall in the Brisbane Hilton International Hotel, described by the former art critic of The Australian, Elwyn Lynn, as "...the largest pictorial waterfall in the world".
	Makin's obsession with plein air landscape began in 1971, when he moved to Melbourne and he began painting with the late Fred Williams. In Sydney, Makin had been schooled in the Anglo-French tradition of Sydney's John Passmore and Godfrey Miller. It wasn't until Makin met Williams that he was introduced to the Heidelberg School landscape tradition of Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, that had begun in Melbourne. Williams and now Makin, have become a continuing part of this tradition, which Makin describes as "the only indigenous, non-Aboriginal painting tradition that Australia has".   Makin is also an outspoken critic of art eduction and what he describes as "...the deskilling of the artist", and was the controversial Foundation Director or the 'new' National Art School, Sydney. He currently lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.
	H i s t o r y   1960-65 National Art School, Sydney, NSW 1971 Moved to Melbourne At present Jeff is the Principal Lecturer, Fine Art, Art Faculty. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.   S e l e c t e d   O n e   M a n   E x h i b i t i o n s   1976 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Solander Galleries, Canberra Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1977 Profile 5, University Art Gallery Victor Mace, Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane 1979 'Objects 1978-9' Prahran Gallery 'Places 1978-79' Victor mace, Brisbane 1980 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 1981 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney 1982 Gallery 52, Perth 'Still Life 1978-82' Victor Mace, Brisbane Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 1984 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Victor Mace, Brisbane Rex Irwin Realities Gallery, Melbourne 1985 Victor Mace, Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane 1986 Perth Festival Exhibition Quentin Gallery, Perth Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney Realities Gallery, Melbourne 1987 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide Victor Mace, Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane 1988 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Realities Gallery, Melbourne 1989 Victor Mace, Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane 9" x 5" Centenary Exhibition Realities Gallery, Melbourne Greenhill Galleries, Perth S e l e c t e d   A w a r d s   a n d   C o m m i s s i o n s   1971 Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Queensland 1976 Townsville Pacific Festival Purchase Award, QLD Rockhampton Art Prize, Queensland 1979 Commissioned by the National Bank of Australasia to design a tapestry - woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. 1980 Commissioned by the School of Veterinary Science, Melbourne University, to paint a portrait of Professor James Steel. 1985 Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Queensland 1987 'The Desert Tram', commissioned by the Victorian Ministries for the Transport and the Arts   R e p r e s e n t e d   Australian National Gallery, Canberra - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane - Art Gallery of NSW< Sydney - Art Gallery of WA, Perth - Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria - Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria - The McClelland Gallery, Victoria - Sale Regional Arts Centre, Victoria - Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland - Townsville Art Gallery, Queensland - Gold Coast City Collection, Queensland - La Trobe University Collection, Queensland - Sturt College of Advanced Education, Adelaide - Victorian Premier's Department Collection, Melbourne - National Bank of Australasia Collection of Modern Art, Melbourne - I C I Collection Melbourne - Melbourne University Collection, Melbourne - Artbank - Dalby Collection - Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane - R & I Bank, Perth - Parliament House Collection, Canberra - Swan Hill Regional gallery of Contemporary Art, Victoria.
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