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Baz Blakeney is a painter and assemblage artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1959, and studied Fine Art at Claremont Art School (DipFA), Graphic Design at James Street Technical College and Arts at John Curtin University. After several exhibitions in WA, he began a career in journalism, which took him to Melbourne, then Sydney, then London and back to Melbourne.
He always kept painting and began exhibiting regularly on his return to Australia. As well as regular solo exhibitions, he has been included in many group shows, including the Living Elvis show at RMIT and the Glen Eira Artists exhibition. For several years, he has had a permanent display of paintings in Young and Jacksons Hotel, the famed Melbourne pub that also houses the once-scandalous nude portrait Chloe, by Jules Lefebvre. His pictures have sold at auction and have been used in other media, such as posters and book covers, including the cover of a collection of plays by British writer Joe Penhall called Joe Penhall: Plays 2.
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Information courtesy of Julie Staunton
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