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 in 1993. Awards: 1986 Winner, Mahlab Art Prize (New South Wales Law Society); 1993 Winner, Archibald Prize; 2004 Winner, Dobell Prize for Drawing.

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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