Nicholas Anthony Ronald Waterlow (30 August 1941 – 9 November 2009) was a curator at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at UNSW in Sydney, Australia until his death. He was well known and respected as an expert on the history of art in Australia and was on the editorial board of the

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magazine. He was notable for his curating at the

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at the

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and a retrospective of the pop artist

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. Waterlow was awarded the

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(OAM) in the 1990 Australia Day Honours for "service to the arts".

Death

Waterlow and his wife, Romy, had three children. In November 2009, Nick Waterlow and his daughter, Chloe Heuston, were found dead at home in

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. Nick Waterlow's son, a paranoid schizophrenic, Anthony Waterlow, was convicted of the killings.Six years after Anthony Waterlow killed his sister and father, family face new tragedy
smh.com.au. Accessed 15 April 2024.

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External links

*Nick Waterlow staff profile, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wale
Nick Waterlow staff profile, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
cofa.unsw.edu.au. Accessed 15 April 2024. *McDonald, John

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Death

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