Guy Maestri

Guy Maestri (born in Mudgee, New South Wales in 1974) is an Australian contemporary artist who won the 2009 Archibald Prize for a portrait of Australian singer and musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.[2]

Guy Maestri
NationalityAustralian
EducationNational Art School in Darlinghurst
Known forPainting
AwardsArchibald Prize
2009 Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong[1]

He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Darlinghurst in 2003 and was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize.[3] He was also an Archibald Prize finalist in 2016.

He was represented by the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney, which listed the key themes in his work as "ecology, human folly and the violated landscape."[4] Currently as of 2019 he is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane, Australia.[5]

See also

References
  1. Barrett, Rosanne (31 May 2009). "Wild At Art". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  2. "Archibald Prize 2009: Archibald Prize Winner". thearchibaldprize.com. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  3. "Brunch - Guy Maestri - ABC Sydney". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 March 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  4. Lesley Chow (2008). "Tim Olsen Gallery - About Guy Maestri". Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  5. "Galleries / Contact". Guy Maestri. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
Awards
Preceded by
Del Kathryn Barton		 Archibald Prize
2009
for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu		 Succeeded by
Sam Leach



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