Background
Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant.
Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant.
He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College, where he received a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1975.
The winning painting, Crutching the ewes has been described as a homage to Tom Roberts" Shearing the Rams. He currently resides in East Fremantle, Western Australia. His father was the noted Australian author and novelist Richard Beilby.