Garry Shead 'Europa' warm tones

Garry Shead 'Europa' warm tonesThroughout his career, Garry Shead has chased his erotic Muse. Recast into an icon and celebrated as a goddess, he sees in her the biographical, mystical and spiritual. For him, the Muse is not always sentimental but rather an exhilarating expression of life. Collected by all public institutions, Shead has won the Archibald and Dobell prizes. Frolicking in the serious and profane, his work is at once poetic and interrogative. 'Europa' will enliven

‘Cinéma Du Look’ occurs in a universe that we will never experience and yet it is somehow familiar

‘Pink Tulips’ is the bloom that will never wilt

She is what we want her to be

amber against the cerulean sea

I try to look at the world through innocent eyes and paint from the heart

'Untitled (Sunlit Bonds)' 1993

With Lancaster Press embossed seal in lower right corner

Lahey helped found Robert Menzies’s anti-modernist organisation

hand-coloured with watercolour

Elizabeth DOBRILLA (1970 - )

Image Size: 26 x 20 cm

a burst of zest from a man who had a nickname for everyone