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Australian Dictionary of Biography

Brett Whiteley (1939–1992), artist, was born on 7 April 1939 at Paddington, Sydney, younger of two children of English-born Clement Whiteley, publicity manager, and his New South Wales-born wife Beryl Mary, née Martin. Brett grew up at Longueville, a quiet suburb on the northern shores of Sydney Harbour. Clem, who was manager of the Orpheum Theatres at North Sydney and Cremorne and later advertising manager for Hoyts Theatres Ltd, was for a time also involved in reproducing images, including (Sir) William Dobell’s Storm Approaching Wangi, which had been awarded the Wynne prize in 1948. Dobell often visited the Whiteley house.

Educated as a boarder at the Scots School, Bathurst, and at Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Whiteley discovered the work of another local artist, Lloyd Rees, who lived near Longueville. He wrote to his mother asking her to find him a second-hand easel, as well as books on the works of Augustus John and Jacob Epstein. He developed an insatiable appetite for discovering how certain artists, including Dobell, Rees, an

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Brett Whiteley

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. 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 school, Whiteley visited the Macquarie galleries and saw a one-man exhibition of the work of the la

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Art, Life and the Other Thing: Brett Whiteley Biography

By the age of twenty, many of the stars in the life of Brett Whiteley had come into alignment. He had abandoned his day job at a commercial art agency and had taken a punt on making it as an artist; he had met his muse and the love of his life, Wendy Julius; he had been awarded the lucrative and highly competitive Italian Government Travelling Scholarship that was to take him to Europe and one of his works was acquired by a public collection.

Within a couple of years, Whiteley was living in London married to Wendy and one of his paintings had been acquired by the Tate. It was a historic occasion for the Tate as they had never before acquired the work of such a young living artist. His art was in high demand with solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries in London, New York and Australia; he was friends with some of the most acclaimed artists of his day, including Francis Bacon and William Scott, and he was a welcome visitor in British high society. Although popularity, fame and notoriety never left his side, his life was