City Life

David Hinchliffe & Julia Whitehead | Two Artists Inspired by Cities

Private View | Thurs 26 June | 6-8pm
David Hinchliffe trained under Brisbane artist, John Rigby, painting as a teenager with contemporaries Tomas McAulay and Rex Backhaus Smith and also studied under premier Australian landscape artist and Archibald prize-winner, William Robinson at the University of Southern Queensland. David furthered his practical artistic study in New York, Paris and London in the 70s while working his way around the world painting portrait commissions until he returned home to pursue a career in politics. He has painted portraits of Poet Bruce Dawe, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and businessman, Sir Alex McKay. He has exhibited at galleries in Brisbane and the Gold Coast as well as at Harrods in London and at Village Art gallery in Greenwich Village 1996, at the Australian Consulate, New York and at Michael Ingbar Gallery on Broadway in Soho, New York and soon in Paris.

Julia Whitehead was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire in 1969. Julia works primarily with oil on quite large scale canvas. Success as a commercial artist was partly due to her ability to create new styles and to approach a wide variety of subject matters. This has continued with her canvas paintings with subjects ranging from figurative to landscape as well as still life and in a variety of styles and mediums. Not only is Julia’s work distributed and sold worldwide as prints, she has also done many commissions for restaurants, hotels and private clients. Concerned about the prospects of becoming an artist as a full-time job, Julia started her career working for a long-haul travel company and then the Queensland Tourist Office in London & Brisbane. This was followed by a 2 year tour of the Far East, Australia & New Zealand. On returning to London, her long held ambition to become an artist became a reality when she resigned from her marketing job to pursue a degree course in Illustration & Printmaking, Cambridge for which she earned a first class degree.