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Dick Watkins

Dick Watkins (Born 1937) is active/lives in Australia.  Dick Watkins is known for Painting.

Dick Watkins won his reputation in Australia in the 1960s with his large-scale, hard-edge color-field paintings.  He was probably the first artist to exhibit works in this idiom in Australia, and he became a mainstay of the Central Street Gallery, then a by-word for tough, ambitious avant-garde art.  This association extended between 1966 and 1969, and in 1969 Watkins was given a retrospective exhibition at Central Street, the only artist to be accorded such an honor.

Watkins had spent the years 1959-62 in London, where he lived in share-houses in West Hampstead and Ladbroke Grove with other young Australian painters, notably Michael Johnson and Brett Whiteley.  All three became the great white hopes of Australian art during the sixties.  Watkins was the first of that diasporic generation to return from London (1961), holding his first solo exhibition at Barry Stern Galleries in Sydney in 1963.

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