| ANDREW SIBLEY BORN ENGLAND 1933 VICTORIA |
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Andrew came to Australia with his family in 1948 and settled in Brisbane, having already studied art for four and a half years. He joined the Royal Australian Navy (I 952-1953), worked in New Guinea, then taught art in Sydney before moving to Melbourne in 1965. There he taught at RMIT (I 966-1989), and in 1990 commenced as part-time Senior Lecturer in Painting at Monash University. Since 1957 he has had fifty solo exhibitions in state capital cities, in regional and private galleries, including twice in Germany. He is represented in the Australian National Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, and other state and public galleries and private collections. He has won numerous awards.
"I've never painted 'heroes' of the classical kind. I've always dealt with people off the street. And in the paintings they're provided with the opportunity to make decisions about themselves and their environment. It's up to them to make harmonious accord with their environment and their own natures. There are no rewards, sunsets, no easy-escape mechanisms in my paintings. But there is the optimism that an answer can be found if one looks deep enough inside oneself. The worst, the most fearsome wolves and tigers of this world lurk within ourselves." "Irene is an environmentalist and a well-known writer and illustrator of children's books. Her most recent book The Bilbies' First Easter was a best seller, hence - the Bilbies at her feet, and native birds around her framed in an archway of hardenbergia (sarsaparilla). The necklace she's wearing is a handmade ceramic piece made in Lithuania where she was born. The portrait itself was finished in 1995, although dated '94, to celebrate Irene's fiftieth birthday." ANDREW SIBLEY Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1994 finalist Rodney Hall AM
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 Irene Sibley OIL ON CANVAS 198 x 137 cm | |
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