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Garry SHEAD
Born 1942, lives and works in Sydney
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Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker who won the Young Contemporaries Prize in 1967, Archibald Prize in 1992/93 with a portrait of Tom Thompson, and the Dobell Prize for drawing in 2004 with “Colloquy with John Keats”. Today he is widely regarded as Australia’s finest living lyrical figurative expressionist painter.
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Shead has shown in more than seventy group exhibitions and had over fifty solo exhibitions.
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He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and all other state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous private and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally.
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