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…
Garry Shead, winner of the 1993 Archibald Prize, is a noted painter and printmaker whose works highlight a distinctive love of the Australian landscape. He brings romantic and heroic elements to Australian scenes…