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Nationality
  
Australian

Period
  
Role
  
Artist


Name
  
Stieg Persson

Movement
  
Postmodernism

Known for
  
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Born
  
1959 (
1959
)

Awards
  
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize

Education
  
University of Melbourne Faculty of VCA and MCM

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Stieg Persson (born 1959) is an Australian contemporary artist. Persson was born in Melbourne, Australia. His undergraduate studies were at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1979 to 1981. He completed a master's degree from the same institution in 1998. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally since the early 1980s and is represented in all of the country's leading art museums.

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Considered among the first of the country's postmodern painters, Persson’s early work is characterised by his eclectic source material, monochromatic palettes, the use of arabesques and a free interplay between abstraction and figuration. His more recent paintings have tended towards abstraction.

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In 2003 he won the inaugural Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize from the Bendigo Art Gallery (then Australia's richest open painting prize), worth $50,000.

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References

Stieg Persson Wikipedia


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