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Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in many galleries in Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including theArchibald Prize in 1992. He has spent time in Japan,Papua New Guinea, France, Austria, and Hungary, returning to Australia in the 1980s.
Born inSydney,New South Wales, he studied at theNational Art School in the 1960s.[1]
He was a founding member of theUbu Films collective in the late 1960s, with whom he made numerous experimental film works,[1] and he also worked for theABC[clarification needed] as an editor, cartoonist, filmmaker and scenic painter before his first major solo exhibition withWatters Gallery inSydney. He was a friend ofBrett Whiteley and participated in the famous Yellow House activities.[citation needed]
He has shown in more than seventy group exhibitions and had over fifty solo exhibitions, as well as illustrating numerous books.[citation needed]
He spent six months in Paris in 1973. In the 1980s he spent time in France, Spain, Italy and Holland.[citation needed]
During a residency at theKarolyi Foundation, in Vence in southern France, he met Hungarian sculptor Judith Englert, and spent a year inBudapest with her before returning to Australia. In 1987 they eventually settled in the seaside suburb of Bundeena, south of Sydney. During the late 1980s his style (figurative, allegoric, lyric, moody) crystallized with theBundeena paintings, the Queen series and theD. H. Lawrence series. This last is based mainly on Lawrence's novelKangaroo (novel), which was inspired by the Lawrences' stay at Thirroul, nearWollongong. Shead became interested in Lawrence after he came across letters by the author while on an expedition with the ABC to the Sepik Highlands inPapua New Guinea in 1968.[citation needed]
The 21st century saw him branch out into a complex set of paintings celebrating theErn Malley series of hoax poems.[citation needed]
He married Judith Englert, a Hungarian artist and sculptor in her own right. They had one child.
Shead won the Young Contemporaries Prize in 1967.[citation needed]
He won the Archibald Prize in 1993 with a portrait of Tom Thompson. He also painted a portrait of Brett Whiteley's ex-wifeWendy Whiteley for the Archibald Prize, but that entry did not win.[when?][2] He was a finalist in theArchibald Prize in2009 and2012.[citation needed]
He won theDobell Prize in 2004 withColloquy with John Keats.[citation needed]
Shead is represented in theNational Gallery of Australia and all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous private and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally.[citation needed]
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