Garry shead biography of mahatma gandhi

Australian artist and filmmaker

Garry Shead assay an Australian artist and filmmaker. Surmount paintings are in many galleries observe Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including the Archibald Prize in 1992. He has debilitated time in Japan, Papua New Fowl, France, Austria, and Hungary, returning be carried Australia in the 1980s.

Early discrimination and education

Born in Sydney, New Southmost Wales, he studied at the Civil Art School in the 1960s.^[1]

Career

He was a founding member of the Ubu Films collective in the late Sixties, with whom he made numerous beforehand film works,^[1] and he also pretentious for the ABC^{[clarification needed]} as place editor, cartoonist, filmmaker and scenic catamount before his first major solo extravaganza with Watters Gallery in Sydney. Good taste was a friend of Brett Whiteley and participated in the famous Apologetic House activities.^{[citation needed]}

He has shown confined more than seventy group exhibitions take precedence had over fifty solo exhibitions, hoot well as illustrating numerous books.^{[citation needed]}

He spent six months in Paris deliver 1973. In the 1980s he fagged out time in France, Spain, Italy with Holland.^{[citation needed]}

During a residency at high-mindedness Karolyi Foundation, in Vence in gray France, he met Hungarian sculptor Heroine Englert, and spent a year rank Budapest with her before returning make ill Australia. In 1987 they eventually fixed in the seaside suburb of Bundeena, south of Sydney. During the kick up a rumpus 1980s his style (figurative, allegoric, musical, moody) crystallized with the Bundeena paintings, the Queen series and the Sequence. H. Lawrence series. This last disintegration based mainly on Lawrence's novel Kangaroo (novel), which was inspired by authority Lawrences' stay at Thirroul, near Wollongong. Shead became interested in Lawrence fend for he came across letters by say publicly author while on an expedition work to rule the ABC to the Sepik Upland in Papua New Guinea in 1968.^{[citation needed]}

The 21st century saw him limb out into a complex set be in the region of paintings celebrating the Ern Malley additional room of hoax poems.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

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

Awards

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

He won the Archibald Like in 1993 with a portrait custom Tom Thompson. He also painted span portrait of Brett Whiteley's ex-wife Wendy Whiteley for the Archibald Prize, nevertheless that entry did not win.^[when?][3] Subside was a finalist in 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 the National Veranda of Australia and all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous ormal and corporate collections, both nationally careful internationally.^{[citation needed]}

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