Grahame King
Printmaking, Visual Artist
1915 – 2008
Who was Grahame King?
Grahame King was a master Australian printmaker, who has been called the “patron saint of contemporary Australian printmaking”. He was responsible for the revival of print making in Australia in the 1960s. He helped set up the Print Council of Australia, of which he was the first Honorary Secretary and was later President. He taught printmaking at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1966 to 1988. In 1991, he was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to education. As well as teaching, King produced his own art work, concentrating on lithographs and monotypes. He was also a skilled photographer and used his photography both in his teaching and in his practice.
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- Born
- Feb 23, 1915
Melbourne - Nationality
- Australia
- Education
- Working Men's College
- Lived in
- Melbourne
- Died
- 2008
Melbourne
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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