Garry Shead (1942 - ) Original Pastel on Paper 49cm x 63.5cm

Garry Shead (1942 - ). Original pastel and crayon on paper titled 'Face & Figure', (1985). Signed lower right. Wonderful colourful piece of art by one the greats of Australian Art. This is one of two in the series for sale on ArtMarkets. Please see other listing. Artwork condition is good with new matting and glass. 

Dimensions

Image size: 64cm x 48.5cm
Frame size: 86cm x 59cm x 4 cm

Bio

Garry Shead is an 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. He won the Young Contemporaries Prize in 1967 and traveled 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 in 1942, 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, and he also worked for the ABC[clarification needed] 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, as well as illustrating numerous books. He won the Archibald Prize in 1993 with a portrait of Tom Thompson. He also painted a portrait of Brett Whiteley's ex-wife Wendy Whiteley for the Archibald Prize, but that entry did not win. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2009 and 2012.