'Petit testament II' by Garry Shead
Bio
1989/90 - Travelled to New York, London, Budapest
1981/82 - Artist-in-residence, Michael Karolyi Foundation, Venice, France.
Travelled in Italy, Spain and Holland, Hungary
1972 - Artist-in-residence, Power Studio, Cite des Arts, Paris
1968 - Expedition to Sepik Highlands, Papua New Guinea
1967 - Young Contemporaries Prize. Travelled to Japan
1963-6 - Scenic artist with ABC TV
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
1942
- Born Sydney, Australia
Garry
Shead is Australian artist 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 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. (Taken from Wikipedia).
1996
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Solander Gallery, Canberra
Michael
Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1994
Dover Street Gallery, London
1993
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
'D H Lawrence Series', Art Gallery
of New South Wales
1992
Solander Gallery, Canberra
Woollongong City Gallery
Michael Nagy
Fine Art, Sydney
1991
Solander Gallery Canberra
1990
BMG Galleries, Adelaide
1989
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
1988
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
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
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1975
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Watters Gallery, Sydney
Abraxas
Gallery, Canberra
1966-1974
Watters Gallery, Sydney
Group
Exhibitions
Garry Shead has participated extensive group exhibitions including the
Archibald Prize Exhibition, in which he won in 1993, The Blake Prize
Exhibition, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and The Sulman Prize Exhibition.
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Awards
2004 Winner, Dobell Prize for Drawing
1993 Winner, Archibald Prize
1987 - Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1986 Winner, Mahlab Art Prize (New South Wales Law Society)
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