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BORN 1942
Garry Shead is one of Australia’s most popular and distinctive artists and printmakers. Winner of the 1993 Archibald Prize, and the 2004 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Shead was born in Sydney in 1942. Following studies at the National Art School he became a scenic artist with ABC TV before staging his first solo exhibition with Watters Gallery in 1966.
In 1967 he won the Young Contemporaries Prize and then travelled to Japan before embarking on an expedition to the Sepik Highlands in Papua New Guinea. In 1972 Shead became Artist-in-Residence at the Power Studio, Cite Des Arts, Paris. In 1981-82 he was Artist-in-Residence at the Michael Karolyi Foundation in Vence, France where he met his late wife, the Hungarian sculptor Judit Englert.
After living in Budapest for a year and travelling widely in Europe, Shead and his wife returned to Australia and in 1987 settled in the small coastal community of Bundeena, south of Sydney. Shead’s biographer, Dr Sasha Griffin notes that Shead’s paintings “highlight a distinctive love of the Australian landscape”. This is evident in his Stockman series of the late 1980’s, his “gently satirical” Monarchy suite of paintings, and most significantly in his famous D.H. Lawrence series.
Garry Shead’s paintings are represented in the National Gallery of Australia, in leading state and regional galleries and in international collections.
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 Gallery, Brisbane
1993 D.H. Lawrence Series, Australian Gallery of New South Wales
1992 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1992 Wollongong City Gallery
1992 Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1991 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1990 BMG Galleries, Adelaide
1989 Green Hill Galleries, Perth
1988 William Mora galleries, Melbourne
1988 Artnet, Sydney
1987 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1985 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1984 The Print Source, Sydney
1981-3 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
AWARDS AND PRIZES
1986 Winner, Mahlab Art Prize (New South Wales)
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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