Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in many galleries in Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including the Archibald Prize in 1992. He has spent time in Japan, France, Austria, and Hungary, returning to Australia in the 1980.
Garry Shead was born in Sydney and went to the National Art School in the 1960’s.
He spent six months in Paris in 1973. In the 1980s he spent time in France, Spain, Italy and Holland.
Shead won the Young Contemporaries Prize in 1967.
He won the Archibald Prize in 1993 with a portrait of Tom Thompson. He also painted a portrait of Brett Whiteley’s ex-wife Wendy Whitely, for the Archibald Prize, but that entry did not win. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2009 and 2012.
He won the Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats.