SAM FULLBROOK
Sam Fullbrook’s paintings of the Australian people and its landscape are characterised by an intuitive response to the colour, forms and stories of his environment, contributing to his reputation as a distinctly Australian artist.
Fullbrook attended the National Gallery of Victoria School in 1946, alongside fellow students John Brack and Fred Williams. He moved to Queensland in 1950, working as a cane-cutter and joining the McLeod Aboriginal Co-operative, painting images of Aboriginal life.
Fullbrook held his first solo exhibition in Sydney in 1952, establishing his profile as an expressive painter of working people and the Australian outback. His paintings have been described as the work of a ‘sentimental bushman’ and in his expressive, smudged outline of forms and high-keyed translucent colours, his landscape, beach-scenes, portraits and nudes are unique in Australian art.
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