Sigrid Thornton
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Andrew Sibley (b.1933, d.2015): Artist
Production date
2000
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Melbourne-based painter Andrew Sibley began his career in the UK, where he studied at the Gravesend School of Art (Kent) and went on to exhibit at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) and at the Tate. Moving to Melbourne, Sibley lectured in Fine Arts at RMIT and went on to become the Head of Painting at Monash University. This portrait of Australian actress and cultural icon Sigrid Thornton AO, reflects the impact of Thornton’s career in Australia, about whom the writer Bernard Salt coined the term the "Sigrid factor," referring to the prospering of any Australian towns in which Thornton acted. Salt noted Thornton’s relationship to shifting Australian cultural values reflected in her filmography, and Sibley’s portrait of the actress is a poignant depiction of a significant Australian cultural history.
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