WAKE, GEOFFREY (1944-)

"Yellow Hills" (1975)
oil on board
cm
signed lower right
*daughter of Geoffrey Wake
*private collection, Sydney
 
Wake is an award-winning Australian Mid Century Painter. He studied at the Perth Technical College, before winning the Power Bequest Studio occupation at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. This was the beginning of several awards Wake received including the Australian Arts Council Grant and Canning Art Prize, among many others. He became an accomplished art tutor from the mid 1970s, setting up a studio in Fremantle. It is here that his work changed direction and his paintings incorporated the energy and geometry contained in the urban landscape.  Geoffrey has been a well respected arts educator and since 1999 has painted full time for exhibitions and commissions. Geoffrey has held many solo and group exhibitions in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, China and Italy. His work is in numerous collections including, University of WA, Skinner Collection, Art Gallery WA, Curtin University and many private collections. This early, strong abstract landscape was produced in 1975 and was exhibited at the Skinner Art Gallery in Perth.