1950 Born Avenhorn, Netherlands
1971-74 Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture), Claremont Technical College, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1975 From Winter Storm 1 (Installation), Praxis, Perth, WA 1977 Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia
1983 Le Cabaret Fantaisie Presents The Temple of Love (Installation), Praxis, Fremantle, WA
1984 Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
1985 Galerie Dusseldorf (Festival of Perth Exhibition), Perth, WA
1986 Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, W A
1987 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1988 Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, W A
1989 Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1990 Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, W A
1992 The Boat Paintings, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA 1995 Art-Objects-Ideas-Toys, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
1997 In the House of Self-Collection, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
1998 Zoo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
2000 Drawings from The Second Canberra Drawing Biennale (1998) and New Works, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
2000 Gatherings, (Installation), Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
2004 Mark Howlett Foundation Commission #8, Cullity Gallery, The University of Western Australia 2006 Assembled Works, Perth Galleries, North Fremantle, WA
2010 Paper products, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, WA
2011 New works, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, WA
2013 There be it, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1974 3 X 1 Show, Installation, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1995 Sculpture in the City, GPO, Forrest Place, Perth, WA
1978 The Link Show (with Mary Moore), The Art Gallery of WA and Art Gallery of SA
1980 Road Show-West to East, Visual Arts Board Regional Development Program, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Drawn and Quartered-Australian Contemporary Paperworks, Art Gallery of SA
1983 Anzart in Hobart-Le Cabaret Fantaisie Installation, Hobart and Praxis, Fremantle, WA
1984 Form-Image-Sign, Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art No. 3, Art Gallery No. 3, Art Gallery of WA (Festival of Perth Exhibition)
1985 Anzart in Auckland, (Artists Books), Auckland, New Zealand
1985 Perspecta ’85, Art Gallery of NSW
1986 Here and Now: West Australian Sculpture '86, Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia
1987 Among the Souvenirs, Western Australian Art in the Eighties, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
1989 Prints and Australia: Pre-Settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery
1991 A Backward Glance, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA
1992 Work (Artworks) Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA
1994 Rough Image, Fremantle Arts Centre, W A
1995 One Hundred Years. Western Australian Sculpture l895-1995, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
1997 Swingtime, East Coast - West Coast, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
1998 Points of View, Inside Perspective, Perth College, Perth, WA
1998 The Second Canberra Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra (also at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia (1999) and University Art Museum, WA)
The University of Queensland, Brisbane (1999)
1999 City of Joondalup Art Prize, Joondalup, WA
2000 white/craft, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, W A
Vast, The Max Lawson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001 Little Treasures: Collaborative Artists’ Books, (with Stephen Spurrier), RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2002 Connection Visual II, Contemporary Art from Western Australia, School of Fine Art, Shanghai University & Hangzhou City Gallery, China
Transpositions, WA Museum, Perth, WA (travelling to regional galleries in WA 2003-04)
2003 Animalistic: An Exhibition Going Ballistic Over Animals, from the Edith Cowan University collection, touring regional galleries in WA, 2003-2005
2004 Shifting Ground, Moore’s Building, Fremantle, WA
2005 A Parched Progress: Landscapes Of Australia, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western
Australia
A Partial View, Australian Art In The University Of Western Australia Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
Revealing: The City of Fremantle Collection, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Living Artists WA: Theo Koning (from the Murdoch University Art Collection), Murdoch University, WA
2006 Floating, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Conflux: British and Western Australian Prints from the Sixties & Seventies, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, WA
2007 Font, Art, Design & Media, Central TAFE Gallery, Perth, WA
2008 Elemental, Brazen Art Space, Fremantle, WA
Looking at Others & Looking Within, portraits & self portraits from the Murdoch University Art Collection, Murdoch University Library Building, WA
Fertile Soil: 50 Years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection, Art on the Move travelling exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2009 Conversations, 100 artists in the UWA Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of WA
2010 Home Open: living with stuff, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
2011 Recent Past, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA
2012 The Snooker Boys Show, 275 High St, Fremantle
MHF20, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2013 The Sportsman’s Suite, Mark Howlett Foundation prints 1991-2011, Art on the Move touring exhibition,
Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, WA
Shop fronts on Beaufort St, curated by Gallery Central, Central Institute of Technology, WA
SELECTED COMMISSIONS RECEIVED:
1985 Festival of Perth poster
1987 Paintings and drawings for SKY POEMS by Philip Salom, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987
1988 Western Sight 1988, A portfolio of 15 relief prints from Western Australia, printed and published by White Gum Press, U.K.
1989 Two sculptural columns for the foyer of the Art Gallery of Western Australia
1994 Design on wool (Print on the Sheep’s Back project) commissioned by Textiles for Nomads, Perth
1995 Wall relief sculpture for Ngala Family Resource Centre, Perth
1998 Festival Fremantle poster
2002 Mark Howlett Foundation Commission #8
2008 Chris & Mary Hill. Monaro, Ord St Fremantle. 10 carved seed. Almond tree, wood
2009 Peninsula Hotel Mandurah. Pelican Bar. 9 piece wall installation Remedy, Leederville. Shop window installation for Christmas
SELECTED PRIZES/GRANTS
1976 Visual Arts Board Purchase Fund
1978 Visual Arts Board Special Projects Grant
1980 Visual Arts Board Regional Development Program 1985 Visual Arts Board Project Grant
1985 Mandorla Art Prize
1986 BP Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
BankWest
Channel 7, Perth
Christensen Fund
Curtin University of Technology
Edith Cowan University
Faber-Castell Collection
Fremantle City Council
Ian and Sue Bernadt Collection
King Edward Memorial
Hospital Murdoch University
New Norcia Art Gallery,
W.A. Parliament House
Holmes a Court Collection
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth
Rural and Industries Bank, Perth
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital,
Perth State Library of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia
Visual Arts Board
Wesfarmers
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ART
Scarleft, K. Australian Sculptors. Nelson. 1980.
Hawthorn, B. Some Contemporary Western Australian Painters and Sculptors. Apollo Press. 1982.
Snell, T. The Artist's Rottnest. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, WA. 1988
Snell, T. The Painted Image: Western Australian Art No. 1. Curtin University, WA. 1991
Snell, T. Cinderella on the Beach: A Source Book of Western Australia's Visual Culture, University of Western Australia Press. 1991
Woldendorp, R . & Stringer, J. Western Australian Artists in Residence. Sandpiper Press, WA. 1995.
Gray, A. Swingtime, East Coast, West Coast. Work from the 1960 - 70's. The University of Western Australia Art Collection. (catalogue) 1997.
Moore, M. Points of View, Inside Perspective. (catalogue) 1997.
Gray, A. The Australian Drawing Biennale. (catalogue) 1998.
Art Monthly, December 1998 to February 1999, No.116, cover
Transpositions, WA Museum, Perth (catalogue) 2002
Connections Visual II, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, China (catalogue) 2002
O’Ferrall, M. The Consciousness of Object. Theo Koning mhf Project No. 8. (catalogue) 2003.
Shifting Ground, Moore’s Building, Fremantle (catalogue) 2004
Peters, N (Coordinating author), The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, Chapter 23, ‘Dutch Artists in Australia’, Dr Nien Schwarz. Wolters Kluwer, NSW, 2006
Closet Circus, Works from the Horn Collection. Forward by John Stringer, essays by Stuart Elliott, Diana Roberts. Fremantle Press, 2008
Fertile Soil. Fifty years of the City of Fremantle Collection. Forward by June Moorhouse. Text by Andre Lipscombe, Ted Snell, Carly Lane, Mike Lefroy, Jean Robins. Fremantle Press, 2008
DiCiero, L. (ed) ‘Artists & Collectors’, Western Australian Artist’s Chronicle, No. 122 Sept/Oct 2008, p.22 Bromfield, D. Waves. The Edith Cowan University Collection. Edith Cowan University, 2009
Barrett-Lennard, J. A Partial View. The University of Western Australia Art Collection. The University of Western Australia, 2009
Gaynor, G & Laurie, V. Mark Howlett Foundation 1991-2-11. 2011
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: GARDENING
Reed Burns, J. ‘Monaro Fremantle WA. Chris & Mary Hill’s Garden’, Australian Gardens for a Changing Climate, Penguin Group, 2008, pp 19-23.
Reed Burns, J. ‘Theo’s garden in Freo’, Green. Sustainable architecture and landscape design. #5 August 2008, pp76-84
Thorpe, D. ‘Monaro Fremantle, made for the sun’, Your Garden, for people who love gardens. Summer 2010, pp 44- 49