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Biographical Details:
Garry Shead was born in Sydney in 1942. Shead studied at the National Art School from 1961 to 1962. He worked as a scenic artist and then a film editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1963 to 1968 as well as editing an arts paper and drawing cartoons.
In 1993, Shead completed a series of paintings based on D.H. Lawrence's book Kangaroo, that emerged after he came across letters by D.H. Lawrence on an expedition to the Sepik Highlands in Papua New Guinea in 1968.
Shead was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1993 for his portrait of artist Tom Thompson. In 1995, he turned his humorous and satirical eye to Australia's relationship with Queen Elizabeth II.
"Although Garry Shead consciously locates his work within the formal, thematic and technical strategies encountered in the art of the European masters Ð Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velasquez, Chagall, Dali and Picasso, the paintings themselves É explore a very localised and specifically Australian reality." (Ref: Dr Sasha Grishin, 2001)
In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Dobell Prize for Drawing for his diptych Colloquy with John Keats. Shead has held over fifity solo exhibition and included in more than seventy group shows. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous private and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally.
Savill Galleries has a long standing affiliation with Garry Shead's work. The gallery will consider the purchase of authentic Shead paintings held in private and public collections.
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