Emanuel Raft
Name
Emanuel Raft
Other names
RAFTOPOULOS, Emanuele
Culture
Greek | Italian
Gender
Male
Birth date
7 February 1938
Birth place
Suez, Egypt View on map Close map
Death date
2016
Death Place
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map
Movements
Australia from 1956; Italy, England 1959-60; England, USA 1969-78
Occupations
Artist (painter) | Designer | Drawer | Jeweller | Printmaker | Sculptor
Summary
Worked: Australia (NSW), GB. Engravings, Lithographs, Screenprints
NGA IRN
14989
Context
Australia
Biography
Born in Egypt in 1938 Emanuel Raft, (Raftopoulos), came to Australia in 1956. He studied painting at the Bissietta Art School, in Sydney 1956-59, and sculpture with Luciano Minguzzi in Italy, 1959-60, after which he returned to Sydney and worked in industrial design for a year. From 1963 to 1966 he was a part-time lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Sydney. In 1966 he left for England and from 1967 to 1969 lectured in the 3D Department of the Birmingham College of Art and Design, Great Britain.
Emanuel Raft returned to Sydney in 1978 and is currently lecturing at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, and the School of Architecture, University of Sydney.
Married to Helen Raft, née Helen Huel-Smith