Study of Brett Whiteley

1939 – 1992Difficult pleasure is how he describes

painting, or creating art:“Art is an argument between what a thing looks like and what it

means”.

The Whiteley StudioNote the collection of photos and sketches for referencing to.

“Self Portrait” at 16, 1955

Sofala, 1958

“Sofala” was one of the paintings that helped Whiteley to win the 1960 Italian Government Travelling Scholarship when he was only 20 years old.

”Two Miles to Get the Letters” (1962)

10 September 2009: Nicole Kelly, 22, from Engadine NSW, has won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship for her body of work, represented by Figure in landscape 2009, oil on canvas. The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is now in its eleventh year.

John Beard said "Nicole’s work is physically rich and determined and she is not afraid to make mistakes. The work stood out because of its direct rawness and forceful presence and, especially because of its honesty. Not a follower of the fashionable graphic style of her contemporaries, but prepared to look at artists before her, and to take risks ."