The London Years

Overview

Though he cavorted with Garry Shead a little here in Sydney, star Australian artist Brett Whiteley spent most of the sixties in London. In London he found an intellectual climate that suited him, got shown in the Whitechapel Gallery, the V&A and the TATE, not to mention married Wendy. Surry Hills' Brett Whitely Studio is pulling together some of the artistic results for The London years 1960-67, including work that shows Whiteley's preoccupation with the convicted murderer John Christie. And if you like some rolling syllables with your curvy art, the Studio continues its regular program of poetry readings on the fourth Sunday every month to give this London ex-pat exhibition some added rhythm.

The Brett Whiteley Studio is open Saturdays and Sundays, 10-4.

Images: Brett Whiteley Small Christie painting no 2 1965, Brett Whiteley Studio © Wendy Whiteley. (left) Brett Whiteley Woman in bath 1963, reworked 1964. © Wendy Whiteley (right)