Native Hibiscus
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William Fletcher (Australian, b.1924, d.1983): Artist
Production date
1979
About this object
William Ernest Maurice Fletcher was born in Bellbird, in the Hunter Valley, in 1924. At the age of 18 he enlisted in the navy and spent four years in active service before settling in East Sydney. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Fletcher attended East Sydney Technical College and the Julian Ashton Art School. In the mid-1950s he moved to Sydney’s Pittwater, where he eventually established a home and studio in Church Point.
A reclusive artist, Fletcher produced some figurative work and streetscapes but predominantly focused on floral studies. He travelled to the bush around Sydney, the Snowy Mountains and Central Australia in the pursuit of native wildflowers to study and paint. He died suddenly in 1983, at the age of 58, and the William Fletcher Trust (now William Fletcher Foundation) was established in his name to support outstanding visual arts students in Australian tertiary institutions.
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