Australian, 20th century, male.
Active also active in the USA.
Born 30 January 1885, in Kew (Melbourne); died 11 February 1969, in London.
Painter, draughtsman, stage set designer, engraver (etching, linocut), illustrator, writer, critic. Scenes with figures, portraits.
London Group.
Horace Brodzky was born in Australia but ultimately settled in Britain. In ...
New Zealander, 20th century, male.
Active from 1939 in Australia.
Born 20 August 1893, in Wellington; died 5 May 1964, in Sydney.
Painter, writer.
Godfrey C. Miller began his studies in New Zealand with Alfred O'Keeffe, then attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He travelled a great deal in Europe after World War I, and also in the Far East. He settled in Australia permanently in ...
Chinese-Australian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1956, in Hong Kong.
Painter, performance artist, writer. Multimedia.
John Zerunge Young emigrated from Hong Kong for Australia in 1967 during Hong Kong’s period of unrest and riots. He spent his formal school years in Sydney and went on to study philosophy at the city’s university. His interest in painting, however, remained a constant part of his early childhood, and he furthered his studies in painting and sculpture at the Sydney College of the Arts. It was there that he came into contact with a number of leading visual artists of the time, including the conceptual artist Imants Tillers. Young’s investigation into Western late modernism prompted a period in which his works dealt with themes of his dual nationality and the diasporic Chinese communities in Australia. Young has participated in many regional group travelling exhibitions. In 2005–2006, a survey exhibition covering 27 years of works was held at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, curated by Maudie Palmer and with a monograph by Carolyn Barnes. Young also helped establish, in ...
