Rob Gutteridge (born 1954) is a South Australian artist and arts educator. As well as teaching at
Adelaide Central School of Art
Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Adelaide, Australia. Adelaide Central School of Art uses the atelier model of visual arts ...
, Gutteridge runs the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism.
Biography
Gutteridge was born in West Bromwich, England in 1954 and arrived in Australia in 1965. He studied painting at the South Australian School of Art (now
University of South Australia), and then worked as an illustrator, primarily of insects, for the
South Australian Museum (1976-1979). In 1979, he received a travel grant from the
Australia Council
The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Austra ...
and a scholarship from the
New York Studio School
The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at 8 West 8th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York State is an art school formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of ...
and, in 1992, thanks to another award, he studied at the Atelier Artistique Internationale des Artes in France. In 2011, he was awarded the Malaysia-Australia Visual Arts Residency, based at Rimbun Dahan. In 2016, he opened the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism to teach classical realist techniques.
Artistic style and subject
Gutteridge’s paintings and drawings have a strong focus on the human body and on clouds, using classical realist techniques. His work has been described as displaying “a keen appreciation of anatomy, structure and form”. He also practices and teaches
écorché.
Awards and Prizes
In 2016, he received a Highly Commended for a work in Monochrome award from the
Society of Graphic Fine Art
The Society of Graphic Art for Pornographique (renamed Society of Graphic Fine Art in 1984) is a British arts organisation established in 1999.
History
The Society of Graphic Art (SGA) was founded in 1999 by Frank Lewis Emanuel, whose idea it was ...
.
Further reading
* Neylon, John. (September 1995)
Artifice and the Eye ''Artlink''.
References
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Living people
1954 births
Artists from South Australia
Australian contemporary artists
Artists from Adelaide
20th-century Australian artists
21st-century Australian artists
Australian art teachers