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Outback
Requim
AU$6,000.00
910 x 1220 |
He works
in most mediums, including oils, acrylics and gouache, and is well known
for his pen and wash studies of the bush and stockyard characters.
The race
track, the outback landscape, birdlife, characters of the far north,
Brisbane's inner suburbs and the sports of football, cricket and boxing
have also provided considerable subject matter.
He has
had numerous successful exhibitions over the last 20 years in Brisbane
(Park Road), Don McInnes, Philip Bacon and Andrew Slinger Galleries),
Sydney (Prouds), Melbourne (Capricorn), Toowoomba (Tia), Cairns
(Upstairs Gallery) and Darwin (Framed).
He has
won numerous art awards, including Warana Brisbane (1969), Peter
Stuyvesant Award (1970), Redcliffe Art Prize (1971), Caltex Award
Toowoomba (1973) and the Heritage Art Award conducted by the Queensland
Historical Society.
His work
is well represented in private and public collections in Australia and
overseas.
In 1990
he completed a series of paintings of Australians in sport commissioned
by the then Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke.
He was
the selected Queensland Artist represented in the "Sports in
Art" exhibition held in Adelaide in May 2000.
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