Everybody is trying to run away from facing certain issues. In 1964 Dickerson stated: ‘I try to paint something that will be different from all the rubbish everywhere.
A portait of Perceval by Dickerson is in the Art Gallery of NSW collection. It is said he bet the 100-pound fee on a horse race and his winnings funded his move into a career as an artist.ĭickerson came to prominence in 1959 as part of The Antipodeans exhibition, comprising a group of figurative artists including Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman, Clifton Pugh and John Perceval, among others, who were against abstract expressionism. In 1957 he was commissioned by Australian Women’s Weekly magazine to decorate a Kelvinator fridge for a promotion. I knew I had stumbled on the most important discovery about myself that I’d ever make.’ĭickerson continued to work menial jobs while painting in his spare time, finally becoming a full-time artist in his mid 30s. Of finding his affinity for art he said: ‘It was terribly exciting. Two years later he joined the Royal Australian Air Force and spent time in Darwin and South East Asia during the Second World War, where he made drawings in his downtime.
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He left school at 14 to work in a factory, taking up boxing as a hobby and turning professional at 16. Inspired by people and scenes of everyday life, his work is often described as melancholy, with isolated figures, menacing dark streetscapes and anguished facial expressions characterising his painting.īorn in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville and raised in inner-city Surry Hills in straitened circumstances, Dickerson was a child of the Great Depression.
A self-taught painter, Robert Dickerson was a founding member of The Antipodeans art movement.
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