Pensive Girl, David Strachan, 1968, charcoal, 40x30cm |
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Born Salisbury, England 1919. In 1920 his father, an Australian Army doctor, relocates the family to Australia. Strachan returns to Europe as a young man; travelling and studying at both the Slade School of Fine Art, London and La Grande Chaumiere School, Paris. He also attends George Bells studio in Melbourne on his return. The war years see Strachan working in the Civil Construction Corps and in 1944 exhibiting his first one man show at the Macquarie Galleries. In 1948 he sails for England, continuing study at La Grande Chaumiere, Paris and holding a one man exhibition of his Sydney works. In 1951 he establishes the Stramur-Presse with Dutch printer Jacques Murray, producing Accent and Hazard, a highly regarded production of the poems of Melbourne writer and poet, Alister Kershaw. Strachan returned to Sydney in 1960 eventually settling in Paddington. His work, of considerable sensitivity, exudes a poetic stillness and is recognised in his winning the Wynne Prize for Australian landscape in 1961 and again in 1964 (the prize that year being shared with Sam Fullbrook). David Strachan died in 1970.
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