Title

Green, Tom.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2000

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Tom Green

Born in Warwickshire, England in 1913, Tom Green moved to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1924 where he studied painting in at the Canterbury College of Art from 1929 to 1930 and then at the Wellington Technical Art School in 1935. In 1949 he moved to Sydney where he studied at the Julian Ashton School from 1949 to 1951 and at the Orban School in 1950. He travelled in the UK and Europe from 1951 to 1952.

From 1962 he began to make Serigraphs, self-taught. Green exhibited both paintings and prints in international travelling exhibitions of Australian art. He also exhibited regularly in NSW from 1963 to 1978, often at Macquarie Galleries and in joint exhibitions with Jean Appleton.

Green taught at the National Art School, Sydney and at the University of New South Wales from 1961 to 1970. He died in 1981.

Green’s works are represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, several regional and tertiary collections in Victoria and New South Wales, and at the Smithsonian Institute, USA.

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