1951 Born Covington, Kentucky, USA.
1966-1969 Life classes at Art Academy of Cincinnati.
1966-1968 Private study with artist Paul Chidlaw at Rookwood Studios, Cincinnati.
1968-1969 Classes in Existentialism at the University of Cincinnati.
1969-1972 Lived and worked in New York, San Francisco and Raleigh, N.C.
1972 Emigrated to England to study with philosopher J.G. Bennett at I.A.C.E., Sherborne, Glos.
1973-1975 Art Director of Coombe Springs Press.
1973-1975 Collaborations with British abstract expressionist artist Gerald Wilde.
1976 Birth of son Zachary John Jerome King.
1978-1982 BA 1st Class (Hons) Fine Art with Commendations in Art History and Humanities, Manchester Metropolitan University.
1981 Stowell's Trophy Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1981 Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
1982-1983 M.A. in Fine Art, Painting, Manchester Metropolitan University.
1982 The Leicestershire Collection Exhibition, Beaumanor Hall, Leicester.
1982 Manchester Metropolitan University Travel Award, Paris.
1983 Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Manchester City Art Gallery.
1983 Prize winner, Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
1983 Cavendish House Gallery, Manchester.
1983-1993 Annual visits to Tuscany and Umbria to see early Renaissance frescoes.
1984-1986 Lecturer in Painting at Manchester Metropolitan University.
1984-1993 Visiting lecturer to universities and art colleges throughout the UK.
1984 The Leicestershire Collection Exhibition.
1984 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, London.
1984 Portraits North, Huddersfield City Art Gallery.
1984 T.S.W.A. National Open Art Exhibition, touring 11 cities.
1985 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1986-1993 Senior Lecturer in Painting at John Moores University, Liverpool.
1986 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1987 Hanover Gallery, Liverpool, solo painting exhibition.
1988 Warwick Arts Trust, London.
1989 Senate House Gallery, Liverpool, solo painting exhibition.
1990 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1992 Crane-Kalman Gallery, London.
1993 Crane-Kalman Gallery, London.
1994 Moved to Australia. Home and studio on 3 acres in Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains, NSW.
1995 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
1996 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, NSW, solo painting exhibition.
1996-2005 Visiting arts lecturer in the department of Social Ecology, University of Western Sydney.
1997 Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, solo painting exhibition.
1997 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, solo painting exhibition.
1997-2017 Artwork chosen for nine book covers and international journals.
1998-2000 Initiator and exhibitor in Braemar Gallery’s Blue Mountains’ Artists' Open Studios and Gardens.
1998-2002 Volunteer work with 13 Anmatyerre and Alyawarre women artists at Utopia Aboriginal outstation, N.T.
1998 Lars Knudsen Gallery, Leura, NSW.
1998 OzArts Gallery, Katoomba, NSW.
1998 ASN Gallery, Sydney.
1998 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, solo painting exhibition.
1999 Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, solo painting exhibition.
1999 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, solo painting exhibition.
2000 Soho Galleries, Sydney, solo painting exhibition.
2000 Mum Shirl Commemorative Exhibition, Sydney.
2000 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, solo painting exhibition.
2001-2005 UNSW Full Research PhD Scholarship in Art History and Theory, University of New South Wales. PhD awarded 2005.
2002 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, solo painting exhibition.
2003-2004 Love Letters to China exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, and touring China.
2004 Lewers Gallery, Penrith, NSW, curated solo 25-year retrospective,
2004 Solo exhibition and invited artist at Watermark Writers Festival.
2004-2005 Braemar Gallery, Springwood, NSW, curated solo 25-year retrospective.
2005 Moved to ‘Blackstone’, 55 waterfront acres on north Bruny Island, Tasmania.
2005-2017 Land regeneration of Blackstone and planting of 4000 native trees to create a wildlife sanctuary.
2005-2017 Environmental and intercultural research and writing, painting and sculpture at Blackstone.
2005 to 2017 Bruny Island Arts annual exhibitions, Bruny Island, Tasmania.
2007 Heritage Listing of the ‘Sod Hut’ at Blackstone on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.
2009 Birth of granddaughter Meadow Darcy King in Cheshire, England.
2009 Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, sculpture exhibition.
2010 Initiator, curator and exhibitor at biennial Bruny Island Bird Festival Art Exhibition.
2011 Bought ‘Kingfisher Cottage’ in Cheshire to spend six months each year in England near family.
2012 Curator and exhibitor at biennial Bruny Island Bird Festival Art Exhibition.
2012 Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, sculpture exhibition.
2012 Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.
2014 Curator and exhibitor at biennial Bruny Island Bird Festival Art Exhibition.
2015 Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.
2016 Curator and exhibitor at biennial Bruny Island Bird Festival Art Exhibition.
2018 Returned to live full-time in England.
2019 Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
2020 Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
2021 Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
2021 The Parsonage Gallery, Didsbury, Manchester, solo painting exhibition.
2021-2022 Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery, 40-year solo retrospective of paintings and sculptures.
2022 Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
2023 Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
2023-2025 MA in Design / Craft at Manchester Metropolitan University
2024 Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
2024 Saan1 Gallery, Manchester.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1998 Boss Woman, Yam: Mediating Past and Present in Aboriginal Culture in Art and Australia 36(2).
1999 Images of Dreaming in Resurgence 195.
2000 Utopia Now in Art and Australia, 37(4).
2003 Images of Dreaming in Images of Earth and Spirit, Green Books, UK.
2003 Embodied Perceptions: Aboriginal Expressions of Place in Changing Places, Longueville Books, Double Bay, NSW.
2005 Art of Place and Displacement: Embodied Perception and the Haptic Ground, UNSW PhD thesis.
2005-2015 Limited edition handmade poetry books: In/sight, Small Prayers, Black Stones, Parallel Journeys, Things I Didn't Say, Journey/Return, Nature Morte.
2007 Practices of Place in PAN: Philosophy, Activism and Nature, Vol. 4, Melbourne.
2009 Spirit place: Being Present in the Land in Spirituality, Mythopoesis and Learning, Post Pressed, Qld.
2009 Emily Kame Kngwarreye: The Person and Her Paintings, DACOU, Melbourne, 235 pp.
2010 Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology (EAP), illustrated poems: Vol. 21, No. 2.
2010-2023 Art & essays published annually in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology: http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/back_issues_EAP.htm
2012 Black Stone Birds: Illustrated Poetry Inspired by Bruny Island Birds, Black Stones Press, 84 pp.
2014 Arts Editor and contributor to Birdsong: A Celebration of Bruny Island Birds, 40 Degrees South, Hobart, 137 pp.
2015 The Work of Gerald Wilde in Gerald Wilde: From the Abyss, October Gallery, London.
2015 Memento Mori: Poetry and Artwork, Black Stones Press, 128 pp.
2016 The Imprint of Place: An Artist’s Journey in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 27:1, 2016: https://www.academia.edu/20125362/ENVIRONMENTAL_and_ARCHITECTURAL_PHENOMENOLOGY_winter_2016
2016 Blackstone Chronicles: Place-making on a Tasmanian Island, design, photographs and artwork, Black Stones Press, 236 pp.
2018-2022 Drawing a Line: An Artist’s Memoir, manuscript.
2021 Book review of Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life, published by Thames & Hudson commissioned by FX magazine, May.
2022 Place, Relationship, and Reciprocity in Country, Aboriginal art exhibition catalogue essay, The Sydney Nolan Trust.
2023 A Place Called Utopia in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology.
2023 Utopia, an interview by Giovanni Aloi for Antennae: Journal of Nature in Culture. Issue 60, Spring 2023, https://https://www.antennae.org.uk/back-issues-1
2024 Spirit Ground in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology: https://www.academia.edu/118663840/ENVIRONMENTAL_and_ARCHITECTURAL_PHENOMENOLOGY_summer_fall_2024_special_35th_anniversary_issue_