Arrival of the Queen

Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 65 x 75 cms (Image size)  -  70 x 80 cms (Framed)
Condition: Good                                                                                                          Date: 2000c

CHG Director's Statement: Australian art collectors; "The arrival of the queen" is an important painting from the Royal Suite, 1995 period, this work being dated 2000. It is from a private interstate collection, in perfect condition, modestly framed. It captures the Sydney skyline with the Harbour Bridge icon in the distance and focuses on the god like representation of the queen. The painting is of further interest being of nocturnal Sydney Harbour subject and quite rare. The theme originates from the artist's childhood memories of the Royal visit of 1954. It presents a romantic mood with the young Queen Elizabeth as a kind of goddess; desirable and at the same time totally untouchable.

Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker who won the Archibald Prize in 1992/93 with a portrait of Tom Thompson, and won the Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats.
He won the Young Contemporaries Prize in 1967 and travelled to Japan, Papua New Guinea, France, Vienna and Budapest. He returned to Australia in the 1980s.
Shead’s work is held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and several regional galleries.

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