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Andrew Sibley is a renowned artist,
notable in the Archibald Prize.
Sibley
work is
represented
in all Australian national and state galleries, leading
municipal, university and regional galleries, and private
collections in Australia and abroad including
Parliament House
and Australian National Regional galleries in Ballarat, Bendigo, Launceston, Mornington,
Shapparton, Townsville and Australian Embassy in Washington, State libraries
in Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
Andrew Sibley paintings are highly collectable
Executive in Love
sold for $41,400,
Playground
I
$34,500,
Musicians in Love
$25,850,
Killer in the Zoo
$23,000.
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Andrew Sibley (1933-2015),
GO
1999,
Enamel Oil
Paint
on
Canvas,
72x65 cm;
Framed 102x 95 cm
Renowned artists like
Pablo Picasso,
Hermann-Paul,
Jackson Pollock
used
Enamel Oil paint
in
a natural
drying and aging
process
hair
cracks may appear.
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Executive in Love
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Mad Lovers Series
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 97 lower right;
inscribed with title on the reverse, Sotheby's, Fine
Australian and International Paintings, Melbourne,
02/05/2000,
Lot No. 9 |
$41,400 |
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Playground I
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1998 lower right,
signed, dated and inscribed with title on the
reverse, Sotheby's, Fine Australian and
International Paintings and Australia, Sydney,
15/08/2000,
Lot No. 5 |
$34,500 |
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Musicians in Love
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Mad Lovers Series
Oil on linen, signed and dated 'Sibley 2001' lower
right; signed 'Sibley', dated and inscribed with
title 'Sibley 2001, Musicians In Love, Mad Lovers
Series' (on top stretcher bar), 91.5 x 101.5 cm,
Christies, Australian & International Fine Art
Melbourne,
08/05/2001,
Lot No. 67 |
$25,850 |
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My Place
Five O'clock Swanston Street 1998
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, inscribed on
stretcher verso, , (Swanston St.) Andrew Sibley
Entry
Sulman Prize 1998,
Deutscher~Menzies, Australian and International
Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne,
24/11/1999,
Lot No. 20 |
$25,300 |
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Killer in the Zoo
Oil on canvas, signed and dated '90 lower left,
inscribed with the title along lower edge and on the
reverse, 77 x 90 cm, Sotheby's, Fine Australian,
Aboriginal and International Paintings Melbourne,
22/11/1999,
Lot No. 3 |
$23,000 |
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The Anonymous Saint
Oil on linen, signed and dated 'Sibley 96' and
inscribed with title lower left,
196 x 120
cm, Est: $14,000-18,000,
Christies,
Australian and International Paintings Melbourne,
01/05/2000,
Lot No. 122 |
$17,250 |
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The Feelgood
Landscape
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1996 lower right,
Sotheby's, Australian & International
Paintings Melbourne,
28/11/2000,
Lot No. 6
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$16,800 |
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The Sandpit 1986
Oil and enamel on canvas, signed and dated lower
right: Sibley '86, Deutscher~Menzies, Australian
Modern Masters 19th and 20th Century Fine
Australian and International Art Melbourne,
03/05/2000,
Lot No. 30 |
$16,100 |
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The Typing Pool 1961
Oil and enamel on composition board, signed lower
right: Sibley 61, Deutscher~Menzies, Important
Australian Paintings 19th and 20th Century Fine
Australian and International Art Melbourne,
02/05/2000,
Lot No. 153 |
$15,275 |
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Lovers on Terminal 1
(Mad Lovers Series)
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Sibley '99' lower
right; signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'Lovers
On Terminal One. Sibley '99. Mad Lovers Series' on
stretcher bar, Christies, Australian & International
Fine Art Sydney,
28/08/2001,
Lot No. 127
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$15,275 |
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The Dance 1998
Oil and enamel on canvas, signed lower right:
Sibley, dated lower left: 98, 99 cm x 92 cm, Deutscher~Menzies, Classics of Australian Art and
19th and 20th Century Fine Australian and
International Art Melbourne,
21/08/2000,
Lot No. 32
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$12,925 |
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Andrew Sibley Biography
Andrew Sibley is one of Australia’s most celebrated 20th
century artists recognised worldwide. With a career spanning
six decades, Andrew Sibley is considered a contemporary
figurative and landscapes painter. Andrew Sibley applauded
the freedom and revitalisation of his remarkable figurative
path. English-born, Andrew Sibley was firmly an Australian
artist.
AWARDS
In 1944, Sibley was awarded a scholarship to Gravesend
School of Art (later the Medway School), where he studied
with fellow students including English artist Peter Blake.
He spoke of these strong early influencers on his life in an
interview with Barbara Blackman recorded in 1984. In 1962
Andrew Sibley won Australia's richest art award, the £1000
Transfield Art Prize for his painting The Bathers. At
the same time, the prominent Sydney gallerist Rudy Komon
signed Sibley and he joined a stable of Australia’s best
contemporary artists including Melburnians Fred Williams,
Clifton Pugh,
George Baldessin, John Brack, Leonard French and Jan
Senbergs,
Jon Molvig, John Olsen, and Robert Dickerson.
2015 |
Finalist - City of Hobart Art Prize |
2004 |
Finalist - Dobell Prize |
2004 |
Finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize |
1998 |
Sulman Price entry |
1998 |
First Prize - Stanthorpe Aquisition Prize1998 |
1996 |
First Prize - Tattersall's Landscape Prize |
1975 |
First Prize - Dalby City Art Prize |
1970 |
First Prize - Gold Coast Art Prize |
1969 |
First Prize - Georges Prize |
1962 |
First Prize - Transfield Art Prize
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1961
Toowoomba Chronicle
Art Prize Sydney
1962 Transfield prize
1965 Winemakers prize (shared with Michael Shannon), ;
1967 Bathurst
1968 Georges Invitation, Melbourne
1969 Launceston (QVMAG purchase)
1969 Shepparton
1970 Gold Coast City (purchase)
1972 Townsville (purchase)
The Winemakers’ Prize (shared), Melbourne
Caltex-Warana Prize, Brisbane
Bathurst City Purchase Prize
Andrew
Fairley Art Prize, Shepparton
Georges Invitation Award (shared)
Melbourne
Gold Coast City Art Prize
Launceston Art Purchase
Townsville Pacific Festival Art Prize
Dalby Art Exhibition Prize
Tattersall’s Invitation Landscape Prize
Brisbane and Stanthorpe Arts
Festival Acquisitive Award
Finalist in Dobell Prize and Doug Moran
National Portrait Prize
COLLECTIONS
Andrew Sibley
work is represented in all Australian national and state galleries, leading
municipal, university and regional galleries, and private collections in
Australia and abroad.
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Homes a Court
Collection
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Bank Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria
Victorian Art Centre Melbourne |
acquisitions
The acquisition complemented the Library’s holdings of
published works about
Andrew Sibley and oral
history recordings made in 1963 and 1984.
New England Regional Art Museum
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Perc Tucker Regional Gallery |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
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Newcastle Regional Art Gallery |
National Library of Australia |
Horsham Art Gallery |
La Trobe Regional Gallery |
Shepparton Art Gallery |
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery |
Wollongong City Gallery |
University Collections throughout Australia |
Private Collections in Australia and abroad |
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery |
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery |
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery |
Hamilton Art Gallery |
Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
Art Gallery of Western Australia
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National Portrait Gallery |
Parliament House Collection |
Art Gallery of South Australia |
Queensland Art Gallery |
National Gallery of Victoria |
Art Gallery of New South Wales |
Australian Embassy Collection, Washington |
Tarrawarra Museum of Art |
Broken Hill City Art Gallery |
Geelong Gallery |
Bathurst Regional Gallery |
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery |
Heidi Museum of Modern Art |
Artbank |
National Gallery of Australia |
Early Life
Andrew Sibley was born at Adisham in Kent, England on 9 July
1933. When his family home was bombed in the London Blitz,
Sibley was relocated to Sittingbourne then to Northfleet,
both in Kent. 1948 Sibley family migrated to Australia.
1951 Andrew Sibley undertook National Service Training with
the Royal Australian Navy after which he spent a short time
working in Port Moresby in PNG before returning to Brisbane.
In 1950s Andrew Sibley began formal training as a painter in
Brisbane and worked with some of the most famous Australian
artists including
Charles Blackman,
Clifton Pugh,
Jon Molvig
and
Ian Fairweather,
and
Roy Churcher
they became the nuclei of two different art groups that
enriched the local art milieu. Sibley became a key member of
the so-called “Brisbane School” together with Molvig,
Churcher and Ian Fairweather (Bribie Island).
1960 Andrew Sibley held his first solo exhibition at Rowes
Arcade Gallery in Edward Street Brisbane. A key work that
year, The Shire Hall (1960) is indicative of Sibley’s
strong emerging style and use of colour.
1962 Sibley exhibited at the
Whitechapel Gallery
in London and was included in “Australian Painting Colonial,
Impressionist, Contemporary” at the
Tate Gallery,
London.
1962 Andrew Sibley won Australia's richest art award, the
£1000 Transfield Art Prize for his painting The Bathers.
At the same time, the prominent Sydney gallerist Rudy Komon
signed Sibley and he joined a stable of Australia’s best
contemporary artists including Melburnians
Fred Williams,
Clifton Pugh,
George Baldessin,
John Brack, Leonard French
and
Jan Senbergs,
Jon Molvig,
John Olsen,
and
Robert Dickerson.
Selected
Exhibitions
Sibley’s exhibitions received strong attendances and
critical acclaim while his work was bought by state
galleries and private collectors. In subsequent years, he
was regularly hung in the Archibald, Wynne and Blake prizes.
It is notable that from 1960 to the end of his life, Sibley
had more than 60 solo exhibitions to great commercial
success.
Andrew Sibley was also noticed outside of Australia.
1963 Sibley was shortlisted in numerous prizes and was hung
in “Australian Painting Today touring Europe”, and “Young
Painters Biennale”, Paris. By the mid-1960s, Sibley’s
paintings were being included in significant exhibitions in
both Japan and the USA in Washington.
1967 Andrew Sibley met
Irena Sibley
(née Pauliukonis) and followed her to Sydney, where they
were married. The Sibleys made their home in Melbourne.
1967-1987 Andrew Sibley was a significant art educator and a
Senior Lecturer at RMIT University and Head of Painting at
Monash University from 1990-1999.
A perfectionist, one of Sibley’s biographers recounts that
Andrew Sibley once destroyed about ten years’ of work.
Literature: David Thomas in Andrew Sibley: An Epic of the
Everyman, Sibley followed his own
1970 Andrew Sibley work included in an exhibition titled "Miniaturen
'70 International" in West Germany.
1972 Andrew Sibley undertook a residency in Berlin. Sibley’s
connection to Germany continued throughout his life with two
more shows in the mid-1970s.
In the mid-1980’s Andrew Sibley had numerous exhibitions in
Cologne
2017 Andrew Sibley was awarded a retrospective of his work
that was held in Berlin.
Most significantly artists such as
Max Beckman,
Paul Klee,
Edmund Munch,
Francis Bacon
directly influenced him; Sibley’s affinity with German and
European Art was based on more than just his exhibiting
there. These artistic remained a key part of his work
throughout Andrew Sibley highly successful career.
2015 Sibley suffered a fall though in his final months in
care, Sibley began to sketch again and some of these works,
made with pen on paper, were amongst his last shown during
his life. Andrew Sibley died in Melbourne on 3 September
2015.
Sibley’s work is represented in all the major institutional
collections in Australia including
National Galleries of Australia,
National Gallery of Victoria,
Art Gallery of NSW,
Queensland Art Gallery,
Art Gallery of SA,
Parliament House Canberra,
Australian National Portrait Gallery,
Tarrawarra Museum of Art,
and all regional galleries throughout Australia.
Andrew Sibley work is held in significant collections in
Asia, Europe and the United States including the Australian
Embassy Collection Washington USA.
A
dedicated figurative painter for most of his life, Andrew
Sibley career spanned more than six decades,
the popularity of Sibley's work among
the country's art establishment fluctuated despite critical
acclaim both here and overseas.
This was especially true during the 1970s as he eschewed a
trend towards a more nationalistic style of expressionism in favour of a European-influenced aesthetic.
Andrew Sibley is a renowned as artist,
notable in the Archibald Prize.
Sibley
work is the subject of a 1993 monograph by the Canberra-based art
historian Sasha Grishin.
Andrew Sibley work is represented
in all Australian national and state galleries, leading
municipal, university and regional galleries, and private
collections in Australia and abroad including
Parliament House
and Australian National Regional galleries in Ballarat, Bendigo, Launceston, Mornington,
Shapparton, Townsville and Australian Embassy in Washington, State libraries
in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
According to McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art
(St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1994), Sibley’s work has remained
distinctive for over 40 years of productive output.
Andrew Sibley
has held annual
exhibitions in Melbourne and has been the subject of a number of
publications including Rodney Hall’s, Focus on Andrew Sibley (Brisbane:
University of Queensland Press, 1968) and Sasha Grishin’s, Andrew Sibley
(East Roseville, NSW: G & B Arts International; distributed by Craftsman
House, 1993).
Sibley’s work is widely represented in Australian
galleries and the State libraries of New South Wales, Victoria and
Queensland.
Andrew
Sibley was a painter and teacher, he arrived in Australia from
England in 1948, having studied at the Gravesend School of Art.
Andrew
Sibley was associated with Jon Molvig from 1958 to 1963. Andrew
Sibley moved to Melbourne in
1966 and held annual exhibitions there for more than thirty years. From
1966 to 1990 Andrew
Sibley lecturer in Fine Arts at RMIT a Head of Painting in the Monash University Faculty of Art and
Design.
1933 |
Born Addisham, Kent,
England |
1944 - 1948 |
Studied at Gravesend
School of Art |
1948 |
Emigrated to
Australia |
1957 |
Began exhibiting
nationally. Friendship with Jon Molvig. |
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1960 |
First solo
exhibition. |
1961 |
Included in Recent
Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London. |
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First exhibited in
Archibald and Wynne Prize exhibitions. |
1962 |
Australian Painting,
Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary, Tate Gallery,
London. |
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Awarded Transfield
Art Prize. |
1963 |
Australian Painting
Today touring Europe, and Young Painters Biennale,
Paris. |
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1964 |
Moved to Sydney. |
1965 |
Moved to Melbourne,
Young Australian Painters exhibition, touring Japan. |
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Lecturer, Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology. |
1968 |
Focus on Andrew
Sibley by Rodney Hall, published by University of
Queensland. |
1972 |
Berliner Kunstler
Programme, artist-in-residence, Berlin. |
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1993 |
Andrew Sibley: Art on
the Fringe of Being by Sasha Grishin, published by
Craftsman House, Sydney |
1997-1999 |
Head of Painting,
Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University,
Caulfield Campus. |
1999 |
Retired from teaching
to paint full time. |
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1960 - 2005 |
Over 80 solo
exhibitions throughout Australia (including three at
Gomboc Gallery), in Germany and USA. |
1961 - 2004 |
Awarded numerous art
prizes including Toowoomba Chronicle Art Prize,
Sydney; The Winemakers’ Prize (shared), Melbourne;
Caltex-Warana Prize, Brisbane; Bathurst City
Purchase Prize; Andrew Fairley Art Prize, Shepparton;
Georges Invitation Award (shared) Melbourne; Gold
Coast City Art Prize; Launceston Art Purchase;
Townsville Pacific Festival Art Prize; Dalby Art
Exhibition Prize; Tattersall’s Invitation Landscape
Prize, Brisbane and Stanthorpe Arts Festival
Acquisitive Award; Finalist in Dobell Prize and Doug
Moran National Portrait Prize. |
2015 |
Kick Gallery Melbourne Andrew Sibley Early Paintings
Last Drawings |
2015 |
Marina Bay Sands Singapore Art Stage Singapore 2015
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2014 |
Melbourne Art Fair 2014 Carlton, The
Royal Exhibition Building |
2014
2014 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Precinct
Kick Gallery Collingwood, Melbourne |
2013 |
Kick Gallery Collingwood, Melbourne
Pivotal |
2012 |
Kick Gallery Collingwood, Melbourne |
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