Keith Looby
Artist
Esteemed Australian Artist
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Enquiries: hello@spudlane.com.au
Keith Looby was born in Sydney in 1940, and entered the National Art School at the age of 15. Following his graduation, he set sail for Naples, Italy in 1960 and over the next seven years travelled throughout the Continent and the UK visiting galleries and museums while continuing to paint.
In 1964 he held his first solo exhibition at the Carpini Gallery, Rome, followed by his second exhibition a year later with Viotto Gallery in Turin. At the suggestion and with the assistance of Jeffrey Smart, Looby returned to Australia in 1967 to show with Macquarie Galleries in Sydney and has exhibited widely throughout Australia thereafter.
Resurrection, Keith Looby 1964, Oil on canvas, 264 x 392cm (Image courtesy of NGA)
Looby went on to win the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1973, the Sulman Prize in 1974, and was the 1984 Archibald Prize winner with a portrait of Max Gillies impersonating Bob Hawke, and many other awards.
Looby was the subject of a feature length documentary LOOBY produced by Mama Dojo and LoudHailer which received rave reviews at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2019 and went on tour screening at more than sixty galleries and cultural institutions around Australia in 2021.
Image of the artist courtesy of Mama Dojo
Exhibition History, Awards and Collections
Featured Artworks by Keith Looby
Dimensions include frame size where framed
Oil on canvas, 243x103cm
Oil on canvas, 228x91cm
Oil on canvas, 103x85cm
Oil on canvas, 103x85cm
Oil on canvas, 145x102cm
Oil on canvas, 204x129cm
Oil on canvas, 182x182cm
Acrylic on canvas, 39.5x33.5cm
Etching A/P, 450x605mm image size; 74.5x86.5cm frame size
Etching 13/50, 430x590mm image size; 74.5x86.5cm frame size
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