GARRY SHEAD
261A Mt Scanzi Road Kangaroo Valley NSW 2577 Australia T: +612 4465 1494
www.galeriaaniela.com.au
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Garry Shead
"The Dance" (LOT 30)
Lawson Menzies
estimated $70,000-80,000 realized a record result
$143,100.
Garry Shead is one
of Australia's most highly acclaimed lyrical, figurative painters who
have been in the public eye since the 60's.
Shead is
represented in the
National Gallery of Australia - Canberra;
Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney;
Art Gallery of South Australia - Adelaide;
Queensland Art Gallery - Brisbane;
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery; Newcastle Regional Art; Wollongong City
Art Gallery; National Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Shepparton Art Gallery;
Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Sydney; Phillip Morris Collection,
Canberra; Sydney Morning Herald Collection, Sydney; State Bank, Sydney;
University of Western Australia; University of New South Wales;
Australian National University; Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane City Art Collection; Artbank, Sydney; National Film Library;
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
and numerous private
and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally. In 1993, Shead completed a series of paintings based on D.H.
Lawrence's book Kangaroo, after he came across letters by D.H. Lawrence
on an expedition to the Sepik Highlands in Papua New Guinea in 1968. In
1995, Shead turned his humorous and satirical eye to Australia's
relationship with Queen Elizabeth II. He was awarded the Archibald Prize
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Artist:
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Artist:
GARRY SHEAD (1942-)
Although Garry Shead consciously locates
his work within the formal, thematic and technical strategies
encountered in the art of the European masters – Rembrandt, Vermeer,
Velasquez, Chagall, Dali and Picasso, the paintings themselves … explore
a very localized and specifically Australian reality. (Ref: Dr Sasha
Grishin, 2001). |
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Artist:
GARRY
SHEAD (1942-)
Garry Shead was born in Sydney in 1942. Shead studied at the National
Art School from 1961 to 1962. He worked as a scenic artist and then a
film editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1963 to 1968
as well as editing an arts paper and drawing cartoons. In 1993, Shead
completed a series of paintings based on D.H. Lawrence's book Kangaroo,
that emerged after he came across letters by D.H. Lawrence on an
expedition to the Sepik Highlands in Papua New Guinea in 1968. Shead was
awarded the Archibald Prize in 1993 for his portrait of artist Tom
Thompson. In 1995, he turned his humorous and satirical eye to
Australia's relationship with Queen Elizabeth II.
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Garry Shead Biography
Garry Shead
is Australian artist and filmmaker who won the
Archibald Prize in 1992/93 with a portrait of Tom Thompson, and won
the
Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats (diptych).
He
won the Young Contemporaries Prize in 1967 and travelled to
Japan,
Papua New Guinea,
France,
Vienna and
Budapest. He returned to Australia in the 1980s. His paintings are
in many galleries in Australia and overseas. Born in
Sydney,
New South Wales, he studied at the National Art School in the 1960s.
He was a founding member of the
Ubu Films collective in the late
1960s, with whom he made numerous experimental film works[1],
and he also worked for the ABC as an editor, cartoonist, filmmaker and
scenic painter before his first major solo exhibition with Watters
Gallery in Sydney. He was a friend of
Brett Whiteley and participated in the famous Yellow House
activities. He has shown in more than seventy group exhibitions and had
over fifty solo exhibitions. He won the
Archibald Prize in 1993 with a portrait of Tom Thompson. He spent
six months in Paris in 1973. In the 1980s he spent time in France,
Spain, Italy and Holland. During a residency at the Karolyi Foundation,
in Vence in southern France he met Hungarian sculptor Judith Englert,
and spent a year in Budapest with her before returning to Australia.
They eventually settled in the seaside suburb of Bundeena, south of
Sydney, in 1987. During the late 1980s his style (figurative, allegoric,
lyric, moody) crystallized with the Bundeena paintings, the Queen series
and the
D. H. Lawrence series. This last is based on Lawrence's novel
Kangaroo; Shead became interested in Lawrence after he came across
letters by the author on an expedition to the Sepik Highlands in Papua
New Guinea in 1968. The 21st century saw him branch out into a complex
set of paintings celebrating the
Ern Malley series of hoax poems. Shead is represented in the
National Gallery of Australia and all state galleries, many regional
galleries and numerous private and corporate collections, both
nationally and internationally. |
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