The Famous Australian artist Fiona Margaret Hall was born on 16 November 1952. Fiona Hall is an Australian artistic photographer and sculptor.
Fiona Hall was born to Ruby Payne-Scott (a pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy) and telephone technician William Holman Hall in 1953 and grew up in Oatley, Sydney. She is the younger sister of the internationally renowned mathematical statistician and probabilist Peter Gavin Hall. Fiona Hall was taken to see the landmark exhibition Two Decades of American Painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales at age 14 which developed her interest in the artistic world.
Fiona Hall won the prestigious Contempora 5 Art Award at the National Gallery of Australia in 1997. She was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Australian National University's Centre for the Mind in 1998.
The Famous Australian Artists
We would like to feature all the Famous Australian Artists with this blog. Here are the first batch of the most famous Australian Artists that we are going to blog.
Davida Allen (1951- ): painter, film maker and writer
Rick Amor (1948- ): artist and figurative painter
Marisa Angelis (1974- ): artist, painter, designer, writer and poet
Howard Arkley (1951-1999): painter of houses, architecture, and suburbia
Julian Ashton (1851-1942): artist and teacher
J. Muir Auld (1879-1942): painter of landscapes and figure subjects, and also did some portraits
Thomas Baines (1820-1875): English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia
Marie-Claire Baldenweg (1954-): Swiss/contemporary artist
Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826): Austrian botanical illustrator
William Barak (1824-1903): Aboriginal artist of traditional Indigenous life and encounters with Europeans
Del Kathryn Barton (1972-): artist, winner of 2008 Archibald Prize
Paddy Bedford (1922-2007): Indigenous artist and architect
Marcus Beilby (1951-): artist, winner of 1987 Sulman Prize
We will feature their life and works on our next posts.
Davida Allen (1951- ): painter, film maker and writer
Rick Amor (1948- ): artist and figurative painter
Marisa Angelis (1974- ): artist, painter, designer, writer and poet
Howard Arkley (1951-1999): painter of houses, architecture, and suburbia
Julian Ashton (1851-1942): artist and teacher
J. Muir Auld (1879-1942): painter of landscapes and figure subjects, and also did some portraits
Thomas Baines (1820-1875): English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia
Marie-Claire Baldenweg (1954-): Swiss/contemporary artist
Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826): Austrian botanical illustrator
William Barak (1824-1903): Aboriginal artist of traditional Indigenous life and encounters with Europeans
Del Kathryn Barton (1972-): artist, winner of 2008 Archibald Prize
Paddy Bedford (1922-2007): Indigenous artist and architect
Marcus Beilby (1951-): artist, winner of 1987 Sulman Prize
We will feature their life and works on our next posts.
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