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Rob Gutteridge (born 1954) is a South Australian artist and arts educator. As well as teaching at Adelaide Central School of Art, Gutteridge runs the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism.


Biography

Gutteridge was born in West Bromwich, England in 1954 and arrived in Australia in 1965. He studied painting at the South Australian School of Art (now
University of South Australia The University of South Australia is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1991, it is the successor of the former South Australian Institute of Technology. Its main campuses along North Terrace are ...
), and then worked as an illustrator, primarily of insects, for the
South Australian Museum The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultur ...
(1976-1979). In 1979, he received a travel grant from the
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and a scholarship from the
New York Studio School The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at 8 West 8th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York State is an art school formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of ...
and, in 1992, thanks to another award, he studied at the Atelier Artistique Internationale des Artes in France. In 2011, he was awarded the Malaysia-Australia Visual Arts Residency, based at Rimbun Dahan. In 2016, he opened the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism to teach classical realist techniques.


Artistic style and subject

Gutteridge’s paintings and drawings have a strong focus on the human body and on clouds, using classical realist techniques. His work has been described as displaying “a keen appreciation of anatomy, structure and form”. He also practices and teaches
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.


Awards and Prizes

In 2016, he received a Highly Commended for a work in Monochrome award from the Society of Graphic Fine Art.


Further reading

* Neylon, John. (September 1995)
Artifice and the Eye
''Artlink''.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gutteridge, Rob Living people 1954 births Artists from South Australia Australian contemporary artists Artists from Adelaide 20th-century Australian artists 21st-century Australian artists Australian art educators