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Brett Whiteley

Biography

Brett Whiteley is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. He won the Art Gallery of NSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes several times, and his artistic career was bolstered by his celebrity status in Australia and overseas. He worked across painting, sculpture and the graphic arts, and is best known for his sensual and lyrical paintings of interiors, nudes and harbour scenes.

Born in Sydney, Whiteley went to boarding school in Bathurst in 1948. Returning to Sydney in 1956, he worked as a commercial artist in the studio of the Lintas Advertising Agency in Sydney and began life-drawing classes at the Julian Ashton Art School. He occasionally joined John Santry’s sketch club, through which he came to know the Australian landscape painter Lloyd Rees, one of Whiteley’s strong influences. On weekends, Whiteley painted around the NSW country towns of Bathurst, Hill End and Sofala, producing works such as Sofala 1958.

In 1959 Whiteley was awarded the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship, judged by Australian artist Russell Drysdale at

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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

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The art and life of Brett Whiteley

In his writing, sketchbooks and interviews, Brett Whiteley often expressed his thoughts on painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. How do these quotes help us to understand Whiteley’s approach to art-making? How do they compare to your own definitions or approach to these artistic media?

Painting

One way of reading the meaning of painting is as medical charts that show what the infliction of life felt like (think Vincent, Rembrandt, Bosch …) – the temperature of pain, the colour of ambition, the texture of pleasure, like God’s slide show collection …
– 1975

Painting consists mainly of sitting in a chair staring at a rectangle and periodically getting up going over to this skin or drum (canvas), with coloured toothpaste (paint) on a stick (brush), and correcting – implanting, illustrating, exaggerating, mellowing, tightening or loosening, scumbling, focusing, saturating – in short, the use of every trick of honesty or contradiction, all the cooking and cosmetics one has learnt or guessed at, in order to show the Great Glimpse, the