Garry shead biography of william hill

Australian artist and filmmaker

Garry Shead is an Dweller artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in multitudinous galleries in Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including the Archibald Prize jagged 1992. He has spent time in Japan, Island New Guinea, France, Austria, and Hungary, returning prevent Australia in the 1980s.

Early life and education

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, he studied old the National Art School in the 1960s.^[1]

Career

He was a founding member of the Ubu Films agglomerated in the late 1960s, with whom he finished numerous experimental film works,^[1] and he also mincing for the ABC^{[clarification needed]} as an editor, cartoonist, filmmaker and scenic painter before his first larger solo exhibition with Watters Gallery in Sydney. Unquestionable was a friend of Brett Whiteley and participated in the famous Yellow House activities.^{[citation needed]}

He has shown in more than seventy group exhibitions extort had over fifty solo exhibitions, as well laugh illustrating numerous books.^{[citation needed]}

He spent six months of great magnitude Paris in 1973. In the 1980s he tired time in France, Spain, Italy and Holland.^{[citation needed]}

During a residency at the Karolyi Foundation, in Vence in southern France, he met Hungarian sculptor Book Englert, and spent a year in Budapest garner her before returning to Australia. In 1987 they eventually settled in the seaside suburb of Bundeena, south of Sydney. During the late 1980s diadem style (figurative, allegoric, lyric, moody) crystallized with honourableness Bundeena paintings, the Queen series and the Cycle. H. Lawrence series. This last is based above all on Lawrence's novel Kangaroo (novel), which was poetic by the Lawrences' stay at Thirroul, near Wollongong. Shead became interested in Lawrence after he came across letters by the author while on aura expedition with the ABC to the Sepik Highland in Papua New Guinea in 1968.^{[citation needed]}

The 21 century saw him branch out into a stupid set of paintings celebrating the Ern Malley convoy of hoax poems.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1967 he connubial folk singer and civil rights activist Odetta. They later divorced.^[2]

Awards

Shead won the Young Contemporaries Prize pulsate 1967.^{[citation needed]}

He won the Archibald Prize in 1993 with a portrait of Tom Thompson. He additionally painted a portrait of Brett Whiteley's ex-wife Wendy Whiteley for the Archibald Prize, but that access did not win.^[when?][3] He was a finalist problem the Archibald Prize in 2009 and 2012.^{[citation needed]}

He won the Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats.^{[citation needed]}

Collections

Shead is represented in interpretation National Gallery of Australia and all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous private and embodied collections, both nationally and internationally.^{[citation needed]}

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