Background
Sayers was born in London, and emigrated to Australia at the age of seven, arriving in Sydney with his family in 1964.
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Andrew Sayers
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He studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, and considered becoming an academic before instead moving to Canberra in 1985 to work as a curator for the National Gallery of Australia, later becoming assistant director of collections.
Career
In 1998, he was appointed as the inaugural director of the new National Portrait Gallery. In Melbourne, he resumed his love of painting, producing several portraits in his Richmond studio which he entered in competitions. In May 2014, Sayers was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which he called "the background static of life".
He died in October 2015, aged 58.
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