Brett whiteley biography australian artistic expression

Australian artist (1939–1992)

This article is about the artist. For the Australian politician, see Brett Whiteley (politician).

Brett WhiteleyAO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist.

He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.^[1] He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, the United Kingdom, Fiji and the United States.

Early years

Growing up in Longueville, a suburb of Sydney, Whiteley was educated at The Scots School, Bathurst^[2] and The Scots College, Bellevue Hill.

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He started drawing at a very early age. While he was a teenager, he painted on weekends in the Central West of New South Wales and Canberra with such works as The soup kitchen (1958).^[3] Throughout 1956 to 1959 at the National Art School in East Sydney, Whiteley attended drawing classes.

While still at schoo