Education
He studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and later taught artistic composition at that institution.
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Nigel Thomson
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Known for satirical paintings of Australian society. He was art tutor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. This painting was based on Jacques-Louis David"s famous painting Death of Marat showing Jean-Paul Marat dead in a bathtub.
Achievements
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He won the Archibald with Chandler Coventry in 1983, and Barbara Blackman in 1997. He won the Sulman Prize in 1983 with Marat, The Unsophisticated will be Shocked by the Depiction of your Death: or, the Artist Answers His Critics. He jointly won the Sulman Prize in 1986 along with Wendy Sharpe, for The State Institution.
