JONES-ROBERTS, GARETH (1935-2013)

"Bather" (c.1967)
oil on board
101 x 75cm
signed lower left
*private collection, Melbourne
 
Jones-Roberts is a forgotten British-born Australian Abstract Expressionist. He attended Haileybury College and Melbourne University but is not known to have had any formal art training. He is a representational painter in oil, acrylic and watercolour and held his first solo show in 1959, followed by numerous shows in Victoria and New South Wales, including Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and La Trobe University Gallery. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 1971. He is represented at several major National Galleries including the Art Gallery Of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery Victoria and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.