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Garry Shead is one
of Australia's most highly acclaimed lyrical, figurative painters who
have been in the public eye since the 60's.
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).
Garry Shead
The Dancing Lesson
Oil
on Linen
76.5 x 62 cm
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Awards:
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1986 Winner, Mahlab Art Prize (New South Wales Law Society)
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1993
Winner, Archibald Prize
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2004 Winner, Dobell Prize for Drawing
COLLECTIONS
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 National Gallery of Australia - Canberra
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Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney
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Art Gallery of South Australia - Adelaide
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Queensland Art Gallery - Brisbane
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Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
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Newcastle Regional Art
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Wollongong City
Art Gallery
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National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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Shepparton Art Gallery
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Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Sydney
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Phillip Morris Collection,
Canberra
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Sydney Morning Herald Collection, Sydney
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State Bank, Sydney;
University of Western Australia
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University of New South Wales
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Australian National University
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Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane City Art Collection
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Artbank, Sydney
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National Film Library
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Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
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numerous private
and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally.
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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 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
in 1993.
In 1995, he turned his humorous and satirical eye to
Australia's relationship with Queen Elizabeth II.
Garry Shead
is Australian artist as well as a filmmaker who won the
Archibald Prize in 1992/93,
he also won
the
Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats (diptych).
 Shead
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.
Shead 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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1942 Born Sydney, Australia
1961-62 Studied at the National Art School. Editor, The Arty Wild Oat
(with
Martin Sharp, John Firth-Smith, Ian Van Wieringen). Cartoons
published in Oz, The Bulletin, The Sydney Morning
Herald,
Honi Soit
1963-6 Scenic artist with ABC
TV
1967 Young Contemporaries Prize. Travelled to Japan
1968 Expedition to Sepik Highlands, Papua New Guinea
1972 Artist-in-residence, Power Studio, Cite des Arts, Paris
1981-82 Artist-in-residence, Michael Karolyi Foundation, Venice, France.
Travelled in Italy, Spain and Holland, Hungary
1986 Winner, Mahlab Art Prize (New South Wales Law Society)
1987 Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1989-90 Travelled to New York, London, Budapest
1993 Winner, Archibald Prize
2004 Winner, Dobell Prize for Drawing.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1996 Phillip Bacon
Galleries, Brisbane
1996 Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1995 Solander Gallery, Canberra
 1995 Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1994 Dover Street Gallery, London
1993 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1993 Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1993 'D H Lawrence Series', Art Gallery of New South Wales
1992 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1992 Woollongong City Gallery
1992 Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1991 Solander Gallery Canberra
1990 BMG Galleries, Adelaide
 1989 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
1988 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1988 Artnet, Sydney
1987 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1985 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1984 The Print Source, Sydney
1981-83 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1978 Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
1976 Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
1976 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1975 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1975 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1975 Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
 1966-1974 Numerous exhibitions at Watters Gallery, Sydney.
Group Exhibitions
Garry Shead has participated in
numerous group exhibitions including the Archibald Prize Exhibition, The
Blake Prize Exhibition and The Sulman Prize Exhibition.
Awards
1986 Winner, Mahlab Art Prize (New South Wales Law Society)
1993 Winner, Archibald Prize
2004 Winner, Dobell Prize for Drawing
 Collections
National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
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
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