Australia’s oldest working artist and former Archibald winner Guy Warren has died aged 103.
King Street Gallery on William, which represented Warren, announced he died today, adding he will be greatly missed and remembered in the art world.
“Our thoughts are with his two children, Paul and Joanna, about whom Guy said, ‘they are the best thing I ever made’,” the gallery said.
Warren was remembered as a dedicated painter who mentored hundreds of young aspiring artists throughout his 80-year-long career.
“He was a wonderful, kind-hearted, incredibly intelligent, funny and thoughtful person and artist,” the gallery said.
“The world will be the lesser for having lost this trailblazing 103-year-old painter, teacher, philosopher, holder of history and storyteller.”
Warren journeyed through a range of genres, including abstraction, cubism and minimalism, during his longstanding career.
His portrait of friend and fellow artist Bert Flugelman, titled The Wingman, won him the Archibald Prize in 1985.
Warren went on to be awarded an OAM for services to the arts in 1999, an AM for the same reason in 2013.
He received two honorary Doctorates of Visual Arts from the University of Wollongong and the University of Sydney in 2007 and 2008.
His art went around the world to places like London, Tokyo, Auckland, Los Angeles, Jakarta, Poland, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
His last exhibition at King Street Gallery on William was in April last year.
