Australian artists in London: the early 1960s

Simon John Pierse

Australian artists in London: the early 1960s

Simon John Pierse

School of Art

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Abstract

During the early 1960s, an expatriate community of Australian artists lived and exhibited in London. They formed a loose-knit group of friends and associates centred on the Highgate/Hampstead and Notting Hill Gate districts of London. During a period that saw Australian contemporary painting reach its height of popularity in Britain, artists mingled with a varied mix of London society, meeting at parties, drinking with fellow artists in pubs and receiving invitations to aristocratic soirees in Mayfair. Bryan Robertson championed Australian art at the Whitechapel Gallery, whilst Sir Kenneth Clark offered hospitality to artists at his home at Saltwood Castle. Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan chose to remain in London but by the mid 1960s many artists began to return home to further their careers in Australia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Australians in Britain: the Twentieth Century Experience
Editors	Carl Bridge, Robert Crawford, David Dunstan
Publisher	Monash University Publishing
Pages	13.1-13.17
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9780980464870
Publication status	Published - 01 Sept 2009
Event	Out of Australia - London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Duration: 27 Aug 2011 → 27 Aug 2013 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/out_of_australia.aspx

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Other	Out of Australia
Country/Territory	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
City	London
Period	27 Aug 2011 → 27 Aug 2013
Internet address	http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/out_of_australia.aspx

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Gallery Talk at the British Museum 27/08/11Submitted manuscript, 449 KB
Gallery Talk at Heide Museum & Gallery, Melbourne 04/11/12Submitted manuscript, 225 KB

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Pierse, SJ 2009, Australian artists in London: the early 1960s. in C Bridge, R Crawford & D Dunstan (eds), Australians in Britain: the Twentieth Century Experience. Monash University Publishing, pp. 13.1-13.17, Out of Australia, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 27 Aug 2011. <http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Australians+in+Britain%3A+The+Twentieth-Century+Experience/137/xhtml/chapter13.html>

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Australian artists in London: the early 1960s

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Australian Art and Artists in London 1950-65: An Antipodean Summer

Gallery talk given at Heide Museum & Gallery, Melbourne Australia

Australian Artists in London 1950-1965: a gallery talk given at the British Museum

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Australian artists in London: the early 1960s

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Research output

Australian Art and Artists in London 1950-65: An Antipodean Summer

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Gallery talk given at Heide Museum & Gallery, Melbourne Australia

Australian Artists in London 1950-1965: a gallery talk given at the British Museum

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