Stieg Persson is an Australian

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ist whose work is represented in all of the country's major art museums.

Early life and education

Stieg Persson was born in

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, Australia. His undergraduate studies were at the

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from 1979 to 1981. He completed a master's degree from the same institution in 1998.

Career

Persson has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally since the early 1980s and is represented in all of the country's major art museums. Considered among the first of the country's postmodern painters, Persson's early work is characterised by his eclectic source material, monochromatic palettes, the use of

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s and a free interplay between abstraction and figuration. His more recent paintings have tended towards abstraction. In 2003 he won the inaugural Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize from the Bendigo Art Gallery (then Australia's richest open painting prize), worth $50,000. In 2018 he was the subject of a major survey. ''Polyphonic'', at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Persson, Stieg Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian contemporary painters Postmodern artists