Whiteley

A biography of one of Australia's best-known modern artists

Brett Whiteley was born on 7th April 1939 and died 53 years later on the 15 June 1992 of a drug overdose. Material for the biography was drawn from media reports and information available on the public record.

The Brett Whiteley estate is controlled by the Whiteley family and the authors were not granted the right to reproduce his artwork or to quote directly from his notebooks or broadcast interviews.

Includes a bibliography and an index. Margot Hilton has written plays, film scripts, speeches, articles and three books. Graeme Blundell is an actor, director and producer.

Blundell and Hilton have interviewed many people from Brett Whiteley's London and New York sixties, from the Sydney scene of the seventies and eighties.

They told of an artist who fought his way to fame but of one with a tragic life which resulted in some extraordinary pictures.