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Australian artist and filmmaker

Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in many galleries in Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including the Archibald Prize in He has spent time in Japan, Papua New Guinea, France, Austria, and Hungary, returning to Australia in the s.

Early life and education

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, he studied at the National Art School in the s.^[1]

Career

He was a founding member of the Ubu Films collective in the late s, with whom he made numerous experimental film works,^[1] and he also worked for the ABC^{[clarification needed]} as an editor, cartoonist, filmmaker and scenic painter before his first major solo exhibition with Watters Gallery in Sydney.

He was a friend of Brett Whiteley and participated in the famous Yellow House activities.^{[citation needed]}

He has shown in more than seventy group exhibitions and had over fifty solo exhib