Olsen passed away on Tuesday evening surrounded by loved ones and family including daughter Louise and his son and gallerist, Tim Olsen.
John Olsen, the celebrated Australian painter whose distinctive and innovative style captured the scale and poetic beauty of the Australian landscape, has died. He was 95.
“Apart from our First Nation artists, he changed the perspective and way that Australians looked at our magnificent landscape,” Tim said on Tuesday. Born in Newcastle in 1928, John Olsen freelanced as a cartoonist before studying art at Julian Ashton Art School, then East Sydney Technical College under John Passmore, where he quickly made a name for himself. Like many artists of the time, he moved to Europe and lived a time in Spain.
He returned to Australia inspired to paint the nature and landscapes of his own country, and created the series Journey into the you beaut country, which was to cement his place among Australia’s artistic visionaries., for the Sydney Opera House, inspired by the Kenneth Slessor poem, which still hangs in the northern foyer today.
Olsen was one of the few artists to have ever won the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes in his lifetime. He won the Archibald Prize in 2005 with a self-portrait,A tribute to his more than six-decade-long career will illuminate the Opera House sails next month for the Vivid Festival showcasing his enduring interest and fascination with the Australian landscape. “I’m a lucky boy,” he had said of the Vivid projection.
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