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ROBERT DICKERSON    Australia    1924 - 2015

Robert Dickerson was born in Sydney in 1924 achieving recognition in the 50s as a prominent member of the Antipodean Group and their  controversial Show in Melbourne in 1959. The figures that Dickerson painted are highly stylised and distinguishable with elongated angular features. He placed his figures in foreboding urban environments that typify loss and poverty, a symptom of the years of post-war depression in Australia combined with a sly askance glace at the Establishment. Dickerson represented the working-class man, the punter; many of his studies showed an inherent loneliness and anxiety, drawn from Dickerson's observations of daily life. "Dickerson painted the most uncompromising pictures of oddly evocative figures, fore-touched by the atom age, humans who, you feel, have existed through all sort of trails and tribulations, which produces a most direct sympathy in us", Hal Missingham - Director of AGNSW

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