The 'trailblazing' Australian artist — who won the Archibald in 1985 — had a career spanning more than 80 years and was painting right up until he died.
The gallery that represents him — King Street Gallery on William in Sydney — has confirmed he died at 5am this morning, Friday June 14, following a short period in palliative care. He is survived by two children, Joanna and Paul, from his marriage to the late Joy Warren, a potter and art teacher who died in 2011.
Born in Goulburn in regional NSW in 1921, Warren had a career spanning more than 80 years, with more than 50 solo exhibitions around the world since 1955. He explained that he remained committed to experimenting and following his intuition: "I know artists who paint the same painting year after year after year … That's great for the bank balance and it's appalling for the soul.
His work is now collected in the Australian War Museum in Canberra, and an exhibition of Warren's drawings and photographs from his time in the army is on display at the ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park in Sydney. In 1996, Warren was an Archibald finalist once more with a self-portrait and, in 2021, he was the subject of Melbourne artistAt the ceremony, Warren said: "The difficulty with a portrait, you all know this as well as I do, is that it's got to be more than just a good likeness … Everybody says is — I don't know. If it catches my character, then that's marvellous.
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