Plate (1909-1977) was born in Perth and studied at the National Art School in Sydney. He then travelled and studied abroad before returning to Sydney in 1940, where he had a remarkable influence on local artists through the establishment of his famous Notanda Gallery in Rowe Street, Sydney. He was a highly gifted painter who moved from figurative abstraction in the 50s to pure abstraction during the 1960s and 70s.
James Gleeson described his work in 1963 as being among the handful of masterpieces of abstract painting in Australia. Elwyn Lynn, an important abstract painter himself as well as critic, described Plate's paintings as bringing an "epic poetry to abstraction."
Plate exhibited widely from 1941-1976, both in Australia and abroad. He has won prizes such as the McCaughey Prize in 1968 and the Aubusson Tapestry Prize in 1967. Plate is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, regional galleries in NSW and institutions in London, New York and Paris, and important corporate and private collections in Australia.
- Eva Breuer, 2006
Carl Olaf Plate (1907-1977)
1909 Born, Perth, WA. Moved to Sydney in 1914
1930-34 Studied at East Sydney Technical College
1935 Travelled to USA and Mexico, then settled in London
1935-40 Worked as advertising writer-designer; Studied at Central School of Art and Design and St Martins School of Art; Visited central and eastern Europe
1940 Returned to Sydney with an exhibition of significant British artists, titled 'England Today'
1940 Opened Notanda Gallery, Sydney
1940 Foundation Member Contemporary Art Society
1940 Visited Europe
1956 Member, Society of Artists, NSW
1959 Worked in Paris, London, Greece and Spain
1962 Visited New York
1965 Visited Europe
1968 First appointee to Sydney University Power Bequest Studio at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1970 First appointee Moya Dyring Memorial Studio, Cite des Arts, Paris
Solo Exhibitions
1941 Notanda Gallery, Sydney
1951 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1951 John Martins Gallery, Adelaide
1951 Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne
1952 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1952 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1953 Peter Bray Gallery, Brisbane
1954 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1954 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1958 David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1958 Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
1959 Leicester Galleries, London
1960 Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1960 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1960 Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney
1961 Knapik Gallery, New York
1961 Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney
1963 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1964 Gallery A, Melbourne
1965 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1967 Lewers Gallery, Emu Plains, NSW
1967 Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1969 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1971 Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1972 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1974 Town Gallery, Brisbane
1974 Art Gallery of NSW, Project 22
1979 Zanders Bond Gallery, Melbourne
1979 David Jones Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Niagara Lane Galleries, Melbourne
1981 Zanders Bond Gallery, Melbourne
1981 David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1984 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1987 Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW
1987 Painters Gallery, Sydney
1987 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Eva Breuer Art Dealer
Group Exhibitions
1956 Contemporary Australian Painting, Pacific Ports
1959 Matson Line exhibition of Australian Art, Pacific Ports
1961 9 Sydney, David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1961 9 Sydney, Gallery A, Melbourne
1961 Australian Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1961 Australian Art, Burr Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1962 Commonwealth Art Today, Commonwealth Institute, London
1962 Australian Painting, Tate Gallery, London
1963 Twelve, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1963 Australian Art, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
1964-65 Australian Painting Today, Australian States and Europe
1966 Aspects of Australian Paintings, Auckland City Art Gallery
1967 Australian Painting, Expo 67, Montreal, Canada
1968 Australian Painting, India and Pakistan
Awards
1951 Mosman Watercolour Prize
1951 Kuringai Prize (Print and Watercolour)
1956 Carillon City Festival Art Prize, Bathurst (Watercolour)
1959 Sydney Easter Show Rural Bank Prize
1959 Perth Prize (Contemporary)
1960 Tamworth Festival Art Prize
1963 Rockdale (NSW) Contemporary Prize. Waratah Festival, Sydney (Contemporary). Young Cherry Festival 'Figure'.
1964 RH Taffs Prize, Contemporary Art Society Georges Invitation, Melbourne (Second)
1967 Aubusson-Wool Board Prize for paintings to be woven into tapestries
1968 McCaughey Prize (for the best picture by an Australian artist exhibited temporarily or permanently in the Art Gallery of NSW)
1970 City of Liverpool Prize (NSW)
Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
State Galleries of NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania
Cities of Newcastle, Tamworth, Bathurst, Liverpool, municipalities of Mosman, Penrith
McClelland Gallery, Victoria
Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Reserve Bank of Australia
Mertz Collection, USA
BHP, Melbourne
University of Melbourne
Australian National University, Canberra
Cornell University USA
Private collections in Australia and overseas
Sources:
'Adolph and Carl Plate' catalogue, The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery, Oct 16 – Jan 11, 1987
'Carl Plate', Niagara Galleries catalogue, 1987
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