Tasmanian Landscape and Figures

Exhibited in Sulman Art Prize 1988 (Finalist)

Artmaster at the burial of talking mural. (Sulman Finalist)

Exhibited Heiser Gallery Qld<br />
3 May - 28 May 2005

Arthur Kelly

Mother and Daughter

A Bit of an Accident

Title?

LETTER TO ARTMASTER NO.8 ROME

BUT WALTER

Island from my Garden (Wynne Prize Finalist)

Originally exhibited at the Australian Embassy, Philippines, Manila (1995) then exhibited at Ray Hughes Sydney (1996)

The Beach Novelist (Manila)

Archibald Finalist (1988)<br />
Historical Context (1988)The portrait was painted during a highly secretive and intense period for the couple. In 1982, d'Alpuget had written a groundbreaking, award-winning biography of Hawke, but they had paused their secret love affair so he could focus on the prime ministership. However, in November 1988, the pair secretly restarted their affair. Looby’s painting subtly reflects their deeply intertwined lives at a time when Hawke was still publicly married to his first wife, Hazel. Hawke and d'Alpuget would eventually marry years later, in 1995.

Blanche d’Alpuget  (Archibald Finalist 1988)

William Artmaster Diptych

Mister Auty, Olsen, Storrier, begin to turn the desert into art<br />
1997, Sulman Finalist

Mr Auty, Olsen, Storrier, begin to turn the desert into Art

Temperance 5

Keith Looby was born in Sydney in 1940, and entered the National Art School at the age of 15. Following his graduation, he set sail for Naples, Italy in 1960 and over the next seven years travelled throughout the Continent and the UK visiting galleries and museums while continuing to paint.

In 1964 he held his first solo exhibition at the Carpini Gallery, Rome, followed by his second exhibition a year later with Viotto Gallery in Turin. At the suggestion and with the assistance of Jeffrey Smart, Looby returned to Australia in 1967 to show with Macquarie Galleries in Sydney and has exhibited widely throughout Australia thereafter.

Looby went on to win the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1973, the Sulman Prize in 1974, and was the 1984 Archibald Prize winner with a portrait of Max Gillies impersonating Bob Hawke, and many other awards.

Looby was the subject of a feature length documentary LOOBY produced by Mama Dojo and LoudHailer which received rave reviews.

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