A-Z Index

The main entry for each work appears under the relevant year [works catalogued under earliest date mentioned – e.g. for Fabricated Rooms (1997-99), see under 1997]
Titles beginning with ‘A/An’ and ‘The’ indexed under next main word: e.g. for The Ritual, see under R
Only titles inscribed by the artist or clearly preferred by him (e.g. in exhibition catalogues) are listed; ‘Untitled’ is used for all other works (even if published elsewhere under other names)
Cross-references are included for all alternative titles
As in the catalogue proper, inscribed dates are shown without surrounding brackets; brackets indicate dates that are certain but otherwise documented or inferred; uncertain dates are indicated with a query: e.g. (1984?)
Works added to the catalogue since June 2010 are indicated with an asterisk*
For further details of additions, deletions and significant title changes since 2010, see Current update

96 Zappo 1996 [previously listed as Zappo (1996)]

Abstract Painting in Dark Blue and Ochre (1991-3) [Howard Arkley & John Nixon]

‘Abstract’: see Untitled [‘Abstract’] 1976

‘Abstract’: see also Untitled [‘Abstract’] 1980 [W/P]

‘Abstract’: see also Untitled [‘Abstract’] (c.1980-81?) [W/P]

‘Abstract’: see also Untitled [‘Abstract’] 1981 [W/P]

ACCA mural: see Untitled room installation (ACCA mural) (1984) [3/M]

Actual Fractual (1994)

Actuality (Is the Void Between Events) 1976

After Durer’s illustrations, Treatise on Measurement (1525) (1987)

* After Durer’s illustrations, Treatise on Measurement (1525) 1987 [W/P]

Agave Parviflora 1985

Amphetamine: see Agave Parviflora 1985

Amphetamine (Spot the Difference): see Spot the Difference (Slow) 1983

Anamorphism 1987 [W/P]

Animal Study 1972 [W/P]

Another House and Garden 1996

Ancestral Fronds (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Arabesque (1979) [Coloured Paisley]

Arabesque 1979 [Curvilinear]

Arabesque 1979 [Floral]

Arabesque – Drawing for Decorated Tram 3 (1980) [W/P] {unidentified}

Arabesque Face 1990

‘Arkley’ jumper (1977) [3/M] (Howard Arkley & Elizabeth Gower)

Arrows 1978

Arrows and Crosses 1980 [aka ‘Op’]

Arrows-Crosses: see Deco 1979 [aka Arrows-Crosses]

As New (1994) [W/P]

Australian Home (1993)

B/W Icon Head 1998 [W/P]

B/W Veneer (1995) [W/P]

Baroque (1979)

Baroque Cello (1999) [3/M]

Billboard: see Winds of War Graffiti 1983

Black and White Icon (1995) [W/P]

Black Painting (1974?)

Blue Chip Instant Decorator: a Room 1989 [W/P] [Howard Arkley & Juan Davila]

Blue Chip Instant Decorator: a Room (1991-2) [3/M] [Howard Arkley & Juan Davila]

Bodgie 1979 [aka Bodgie-Widgie, Deco]

Bodgie-Widgie: see Bodgie 1979 [aka Bodgie-Widgie, Deco]

Brand New (1994)

Brand New Villa 1994

* Brand New Villa (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Brick Bracket 1998 [3/M]

Brick Veneer with Feature Window 1988

Bum Flowers 1995 [Howard Arkley & Alison Burton]

Bungalow Home 1987

Bungalow Home 1989

Bungalow Home (1996) [W/P]

Cactaceae-Horstii (?) 1989

Cactaceae-Horstii (1985?): see Conophytums (1984) [W/P]

Cacti and Succulent (1995) [W/P]

Cacti Day and Night 1984 [W/P]

The Cacti Succulents (1986)

Cactus Head: see Untitled [‘Cactus Head’] 1984 [W/P]

Camera Head: see Polaroid Portrait 1990

Carbonite (1973)

Cartographer (after Durer) 1983

Cartographer (after Durer) (1995) [W/P]

* Casual Space 1993

Chair (1980) [3/M]

Chair Tableau with Muzak Mural; and source material (1988 and earlier) [W/P]

Chair: see also Untitled (Chair) (1991) [3/M]

Chairs: see also Four Chairs (1981-91) [3/M]

Chairs: see also Four Chairs W, V, X, T 1980 [W/P]

Circle 1977 [W/P] {unidentified}

Circular Model (1976) [W/P] {unidentified}

Cityscape (1990) [large]

Cityscape (1990) [small]

Coils: see Secession 1979

Colour Field Home 1999 [previously listed as Untitled [House #1] (1999)]

Coloured Primitive 1982 [previously listed as Untitled [Heads & Arrows] (1981?)]

Colourfield House (1996) [W/P]

Computer Head 1990

Conophytums (1984) [W/P]

Console (1999) [3/M]

Construction Sight 1984 [W/P]

Containing Seeds: see Study for White Painting #D 1975 [W/P]

Contemporary Units (1988)

Corner House: see Brand New Villa 1994

Corner House B/W (1994) [W/P]

Corner House (study) (1995) [W/P]

Corner House with Hedge 1989

Cosy Clinker (1994)

Crawling Nature (1986) [W/P]

Crisp and Tailored 1993

Cup and Saucer (1980) [W/P] [‘Functional Object’ series]

Curlicue Console 1998 [3/M]

Current flows flying into play 1972 [W/P]

Curvelinear 1978

Curvilinear: see Arabesque 1978

Curvilinear Painting (1978)

Curvilinear with Grid 1978

A Death Thing (1982) [W/P] {unidentified}

Deco 1979 [aka Arrows-Crosses]

Decorated t-shirt (1983) [3/M]

Deluxe Setting 1992

Deluxe Space: see Supa Interior (1999)

Demo Space 1994 [W/P]

Design for Tapestry (c.1983?) [W/P?] {unidentified}

Design (in 2 sections) for a Tapestry 1983 [W/P]

Dining in a Glow 1993

Disco (1981)

Disco (1981) [W/P]

Disco Cacti B/W (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Discocacti 1986

Discocacti [study] (1986?) [W/P]

Domestic Agriculture (1987) [W/P]

Domestic Horticulture (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Dots B/W (1979)

Double Arabesque 1978

Drawing for a colorful void c.1973 [W/P]

Drawing for Decorated Tram Project 1980 [W/P]

* Drawing for Tram (1980) [W/P]

Dress 1980 [W/P] (‘Functional Object’ series)

* Dull Home 1998 [W/P]

Embossed Bracket (1998) [3/M]

English Style (1987) [formerly listed as Tudor House 1987]

Established Garden: see House with Native Tree 1996

Euphorbia (1984) [W/P]

Ever Feel Like Drowning 1987

Ever Feel Like Drowning (1987) [W/P]

Explosion (1996)

Exquisite Corpse: see Untitled (‘Exquisite Corpse’) [1-4] (1984) [W/P] [Howard Arkley, Juan Davila, Maria Kozic]

Fabricated Rooms (1997-99)

Face (1988) [W/P]

Face of an Icon (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Faces – Variations 1-8 (1985?) [W/P?] {unidentified}

Family Home (1988)

Family Home (1996) [W/P]

Family Home: Suburban Exterior (1993)

Fast 1986

Fast-lid 1974

Feet: see Tattooed Feet 1983

Felony (1983)

Felony (1983) [W/P]

Felony 1987

Fenced In Home (1996) [W/P]

50′s 1979

Figurative (1981) [W/P] {unidentified}

Figurative 1981

Filagree Console (1998) [3/M]

Flash Villa 1995

Floral (1981)

Floral: see also Arabesque 1979 [Floral]

Floral Exterior (1996)

Floral Interior (1996) [W/P] {unidentified}

Floral Facarde [sic] 1995

* Floriated Address 1995

Floriated Residence (1994)

Floriated Room (1993)

* Flower Head 1987 [W/P]

Four Chairs (1981-91) [3/M]

Four Chairs W, V, X, T 1980 [W/P]

Four Studies (1983) [W/P]

The Freeway (1999)

Freeway (Exit) 1995

Freeway Exit 1996

Freeway (overpass) 1996

* Freeway – Exit 1997 [W/P]

Freeway Exit (1999) [previously listed as Freeway Exit [Lovegrove] (1999)]

Freeway (over pass) (1996) [W/P]

A Freeway Painting (Exit) 1994

A Freeway Painting (Over Pass) 1994

Freeway: see also The Rialto Freeway (1998)

Futurist: see Curvelinear 1978

Futurist Painting: see Curvilinear Painting (1978)

Futurist with Dots (1979)

Germinating (1973?) [W/P] {unidentified}

‘Girl in a Car’: see Untitled [‘Girl in a Car’] (1976-7?)

Grace with Space 1994

Grey Home (1999)

* Grey House 1999 [W/P]

Grid and Lattice Wallcoverings (1987) [3/M]

Hands: see Tattooed Hands 1983

Happenstance (1987)

Happenstance: see also Physiognomy 1987

Have you any glass friends (1972) [W/P]

Head Baudelaire: see Mask for Baudelaire (1994) [W/P]

Head of Science (1985?) [W/P]

* Head of Young Man (Dale) 1998 [W/P]

Head Satre (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Head Transformer (1992)

Head Virus (1991)

Hedge on Street Corner 1988

High Fenced (1995) [W/P]

High Fenced 1996

High Rise St Kilda Road 1986

Highrise on Highrise (1996) [W/P]

Home, Eastern Suburbs (1988)

Home Enclosed by Fence 1995 [W/P]

Home with Brown Bush 1999 [previously listed as Untitled [House #2] (1999) and Untitled [House] (1999)]

Home with Eucalyptus (1999)

* The Home with the Purple Gate 1998 [W/P]

Homefront Strips (1993)

Homezone (1999) [3/M]

Hooliganism (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

House (1988) [W/P] {unidentified}

House and Garden Western Suburbs, Melbourne 1988

House and Native Tree 1996 [W/P]

House with Gate: see Residence with Gate 1999

House with Hedge 1999

House with Native Tree 1996

House with Native Tree 1997

Household Interior (1996) [W/P] {unidentified}

Houseomorphics (1996)

* However many heads + two flowers 1981 [W/P]

Icon (triptych) 1983

Icon Head (1990)

Icon Head (1994)

Icon Head 1996 [W/P]

* The Icon Head 1997 [W/P]

Icon Interior (1994-2001) [3/M] [Howard Arkley & Juan Davila]

Icons: see Through the Peel of the Orange 1982 [W/P]

Idiot Vision (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Illogical Graft (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Illuminated Space (1999)

Indoors-Outdoors 1994

Inhaling (c.1973-4) {unidentified}

* Interior 1996 [W/P]

Interior [Bellas] (1996) [W/P]

Interior Tableau 1992

Interior with Built-in Bar (1992) [W/P] [Howard Arkley & Juan Davila] {screen print}

Interior with Built-in-Bar 1992 [W/P] [Howard Arkley & Juan Davila] {gouache}

Interiorite 1992 {unidentified}

Interstellar/Offcuts 1989

Intoxication (1973?) [W/P]

Inventory (1975)

Inventory 1976

Isometric Chair (1980) [W/P]: see W Chair (1980) [W/P]

Isotype 1979

Jap Head 1985 [W/P]

Ketoacidosis (1996) [W/P] {unidentified}

Ketoacidosis and Head (1995) [W/P]

Lace-Lanced 1983 [W/P]

Lacquered Bracket (1998) [3/M]

Laminated Bracket 1998 [3/M]

Lanced Lace: see Lace-Lanced 1983 [W/P]

A Large House and Garden (1997)

A Large House with Fence 1998

Large Organic Model (1977) [W/P]

Lattice 1981 [W/P]

Lattice and Grid (1980)

Lattice and Grids 1981

Lattice Console 1998 [3/M]

Lattices: see Lattice and Grids 1981

Laura’s Living Black 1972

* Lavender and Sweet William 1998

Leaves 1978

Leaves and Flowers 1981

Leaves of the Leaf series 1975 [W/P]

Leaves of the Leaf series (6) 1975 [W/P]

Letter-box Home (1995) [W/P]

* Letter-box Home [interior] 1995 [W/P]

Light and Bright (1994)

* Lightning (1983)

Lightning: see also Zappo 1983

Liquid Tracing (1977) [W/P] {unidentified}

Little Bird 1995 [W/P]

Logitec (1981?)

Logitex (a hooked rug) (1981) [3/M]

Logitex (table and chair tableau) (1980-84) [3/M]

Logitex: see also Logitec (1981?)

Lophophora (1984) [W/P]

Lophophora 1986 [W/P]

Magical Tango (1973?) [W/P] {unidentified}

Man Looking onto Cityscape: see Untitled [‘Man looking onto cityscape’] (1994?)

Map Book 1978 [3/M] [Howard Arkley & Elizabeth Gower]

Mask for Baudelaire (1994) [W/P]

Matrix Console (1998) [3/M]

Matt’s Topy + Cacti (stillife) 1995

Measured Model (1976) [W/P] {unidentified}

Measured Model (E) (1976) [W/P] {unidentified}

The Model (1983) [W/P]

Model Tudor Village, Fitzroy Gardens 1986

Modern Agriculture 1987

Modern O.Y.O.Flats (1988)

Mosaic (1980)

Mosaic Entrance 1994

Muzak Mural – Chair Tableau (1980-81) [3/M]

Neapolitan Delight (1993) [kitchen]

Neapolitan Delight (1993) [lounge-room]

Neocammgii (1993) [W/P] {unidentified}

Neocummgii 1984: see Stapelia-Peduncle 1986 [W/P]

Neo-Porteria (1984) [W/P]

New Room (1993)

Nice & Spacey (1993)

Nick Cave (1999)

Notocactis 1986

Notocactis (1993) [W/P] {unidentified}

Nude dreaming of spiders 1982 [W/P]

Op: see Arrows and Crosses 1980 [aka ‘Op’]

Operations, Notch, Trim 1975

Operations – Notch – Trim: see Operations, Notch, Trim 1975

Operations, Notch, Trim, Spread: see Operations, Notch, Trim 1975

Operations (Spread Enclose Filling): see Operations, Notch, Trim 1975

Organic Model A (Thought Form) 1976

Organic Model (Intuitive Reason) (1976)

Organic Model F (Liquid) (1976)

Organic Model G (Black Square) 1976 [Coventry]

Organic Model G (Black Square) 1976 [Tolarno]

Organic Model Study 1977 [W/P]

Organic Model: see also Organic Model D (Intuitive Reason) (1976)

The Orient (1975) [W/P]

Oriental Line Study 1975 [W/P]

Oriental Recording (1977?) {unidentified}

Oriental (Wave Study) 1974

Oriental (wave study) (1975) [W/P] {unidentified}

Ormulu Bracket (1998) [3/M]

Ornamentic 1981

Ornamentik (1981)

Our Home (1986)

Outside-Inside-Out 1995 [‘The Heide Installation’]

O.Y.O. Flats 1987

A Pair of Leaves 1975 [W/P]

Paisley (1981)

Paisley; and source material (1988 and earlier) [W/P]

Paper Construction (1978) [W/P] (states 1-3)

Paris doorways: see Photographs of Paris doorways (1977) [3/M]

Pattern Painting; and source material (1988 and earlier) [W/P]

Pauses (Interchronic) 1976

Pauses (Interchronic) (1976) [W/P]

Peel of the Orange 1983: see Agave Parviflora 1985

Penis: see Tattooed Penis (1983)

Photographs of Australian flywire screen doors (c.1978-80) [3/M]

Photographs of Los Angeles Freeways (1999) [3/M]

Photographs of Paris doorways (1977) [3/M]

Physiognomy 1987

Picasso Face (1985) [W/P]

Picasso Head 1990

Picasso Head (1994) [W/P]

Picasso Head 1996 [W/P]

A Piece Called Nerve (1975)

Pink Home 1998 [previously listed as Untitled [House with Gate variant] (1999?)]

Pirrouette Seed (1987) [W/P]

Pittoresque (1984) [W/P]

Pittoresque 1988 [W/P]

Pittoresque (?) (1996) [W/P]

Plain and Fancy (1993)

Plastic Portrait (1990)

Polaroid Portrait (1990)

‘Poles’: see Untitled [‘Poles’] 1976 [W/P]

Portrait: see Tattooed Head (1983)

* Portrait of David Bromley 1997 [W/P]

‘Portrait of the Artist and Five Friends’ project (1984 and later) [3/M]

Prahran House (1991)

Primal (Thought Form): see Organic Model D (Intuitive Reason) (1976)

Primal (Thought Forms): see Organic Model G (Black Square) 1976 [Tolarno]

A Primary Organic Model (1976) [W/P] {unidentified}

Primitive [mural] (1981) [W/P]

Primitive [small] (1981) [W/P] {unidentified}

Primitive (1995) [W/P]

Primitive Gold 1982

Primitive Gold (?) (1984)

Primitive Gold / Primitive Silver 1981

Primitive Silver 1982

* Primitive Silver 1984

Print Out 1979

Print Out (1980)

Print Out II (red and blue): see Printout Red/Blue 1980

Printout 1981

Printout 1981 [W/P]

Printout – Drawing for Decorated Tram 4 (1980) [W/P]

Printout Red/Blue 1980

Print-out Red/Blue (1979?) [W/P] {unidentified}

Private (Thought Form) (1976)

Proton-Neutron 1979

The Proton Neutron 1980

Proton-Neutron 50s (1979)

Proton-Neutron – Drawing for Decorated Tram 1 (1980) [W/P]

Psychedelic 1979

Psychedelic Head (1990)

Psychedelic Painting 1978

Psychedelic Painting [study] 1978 [W/P]

Razz-Dazz (1984) [W/P]

Reading (1973?) [W/P] {unidentified}

Recording Model: see Pauses (Interchronic) 1976

Recording (Scientific Knowledge) (1975) {unidentified}

Recording (wave study) 1976

Red Dress: see Dress 1980 [W/P] (‘Functional Object’ series)

Red Wedge [#1] 1981 [W/P] [previously listed as Redwedge]

* Red Wedge [#2] 1981 [W/P] [new entry added 12/23]

Residence with Gate 1999

The Rialto Freeway (1998)

Riteroom (1998)

The Ritual 1986

Rococo Rhythm 1992

Romantic (Spot the Difference): see Spot the Difference (Fast) 1983

Room Interior 1980 [W/P] (‘Functional Object’ series)

* Room with Pink Chair 1998

Room Within a Home (1995) [W/P]

Roomarana 1993

A Roomfull (1994)

Roomrite 1992 [1993]

Rrrrrr Art 1994

Sampler: Contemporary (1998)

Sampler: Formal (1998)

Sampler: Modern (1998)

Sampler: Traditional (1998)

Scalloped Bracket 1998 [3/M]

Schizo 1983

Science 1981

Secession 1979

Second Psychedelic Head 1992

Second Tracing: see Oriental (Wave Study) 1974

‘Selection of source photographs for “Suburban House” series’ 1987 [3/M]

Self contained (1972) [W/P]

Self contained [collage] (1972) [W/P]

Self Portrait (1996) [W/P]

Seltsamer (1974)

Seltsamer (1975)

Shadow Factories (1988) [Tolarno]

Shadow Factories 1989 [Deutscher]

Shadow Factories (1990) [Lyon]

Shadow Factories 1990 [Spray]

Shadow Factories 1991

Shadow Factory B/W 1994 [W/P]

Showpiece (1998) [3/M]

Silver Room: see Room Interior 1980 [W/P] [aka ‘Silver Room’] (‘Functional Object’ series)

Simulated Portrait 1990

Skulls and Bones (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Soft Nouveau 1978

* Space Between Events (1975) [W/P]

Spartan Space (Homage to De Stijl) 1992

Speeding (1974?) [W/P]

Speeding (1986)

Speeding: see also Fast-lid 1974

* Spirits crying 1973 [W/P]

A Splendid Superior Home (1989)

Spot the Difference (A): see Spot the Difference (Fast) 1983

Spot the Difference (B): see Spot the Difference (Slow) 1983

Spot the Difference (Fast) 1983

Spot the Difference (Slow) 1983

‘Spots’: see Untitled [‘Spots’] 1978 [W/P]

Spray Veneer 1994

Stapelia-Peduncle 1985 [W/P]

Static/Dynamic Opposition (1974)

* Still Life (1986)

Still Life D.E. (Linear Analysis) (1976)

Still Life Petunias 1987

Still Life Petunias (1996) [W/P] {unidentified}

Still Life – Tailflowers – see Bum Flowers 1995 [Howard Arkley & Alison Burton]

* Stillife Tulips 1995

Still Life Tulips (1996)

Still Life Tulips (1999)

Stillife Petunias (for Leigh) 1997

Strange Fruit 1987

Strange Fruit (1987) [W/P]

Strange Fruit: see also Physiognomy 1987

Strange Fruit B/W (1994) [W/P] {unidentified}

Stroke (1975)

Stucco Home (1991)

Stucco House (1988)

Study for Actuality [Monash #1] (1974) [W/P]

Study for Actuality [Monash #2] (1974) [W/P] {unidentified}

Study for Actuality [A93] (1974) [W/P]

* Study for Chair Tableau, Blue X 1993

Study for Nick Cave (1999) (double sided drawing) [W/P]

Study for Oriental Wave Study #1 [A94] (1974) [W/P]

Study for Oriental Wave Study #2 (1974) [W/P]

Study for White Painting #D 1975 [W/P] [previously listed as Containing Seeds]

Suburb: A (1988)

Suburban 1983

Suburban Allegory (1994?) {unidentified}

Suburban Domestic (1997) [W/P]

Suburban Exterior (1983)

* Suburban Exterior (1995) [W/P]

Suburban Head (1985?) [W/P?] {unidentified}

Suburban houses: see also ‘Selection of source photographs for “Suburban House” series’ 1987 [3/M]

Suburban Interior (1983)

Suburban Interior (1995) [W/P]

* Suburban Landscape 1987 [Howard Arkley & Christine Johnson]

Suburban Landscape: see also Suburban Window 1987 [Howard Arkley & Christine Johnson]

Suburban Window 1987 [Howard Arkley & Christine Johnson] {previously listed as Suburban Landscape 1987 [aka Suburban Window] [Howard Arkley & Christine Johnson]}

Suicide (1983)

Suicide; and source material (1988 and earlier) [W/P]

Suicide: see also Untitled [‘Suicide’] (1984) [W/P]

* Sun Shade Home 1998 [W/P]

Supa Interior (1999)

Supa Room Study (1995) [W/P]

Suparoom 1992

Superb + Solid (1998)

Supernova/Remnants (1989) {unidentified}

Swatch Trestle (1998) [3/M]

T.V.Injun (1983) [W/P]

Table 1980 [W/P] (‘Functional Object’ series)