David Larwill

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Larwill
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jun 26, 1956(1956-06-26)
Age	68
Date Of Death	19 June 2011,
Birthplace	Ballarat
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Cancer

David Larwill Biography

David Larwill is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on June 26, 1956 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

David Larwill was born in Ballarat, Central Victoria, and spent his early life on family-owned farms. In the 1960s, Larwill moved to his grandmother’s house at Mt Martha, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. He attended Mornington Secondary College (finishing in 1973) and later Frankston Technical College (1974–75), where he studied photography, painting and sculpture. The following year, Larwill started studying ceramics at Prahran College of Advanced Education but dropped out of the course after three months, and worked as a labourer at a steel mill in nearby Hastings. He then moved to Noosa in Queensland, to live in a girlfriend’s parents’ villa, and left Australia to travel throughout Europe and North America for 18 months.

The contemporary Australian painter, Peter Booth, had a profound impact upon the development of Larwill’s early painting style. Larwill attended a 1979 exhibition of Booth’s work at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond, Victoria, which consisted of large narrative paintings depicting the end of the world. Larwill was intrigued by what could be achieved through paint, commenting: “You could do ugly scenes but the overall effect is one of beauty”.

David Larwill Net Worth

David Larwill is one of the richest Artist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Larwill 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Larwill (1956–2011) was an Australian artist recognisable by his distinctive and exuberant style based on bold colour, stylised figures and simplified form. Although best known as a figurative expressionist painter, Larwill was also a draughtsman and printmaker of note. He produced many drawings, watercolours, ceramics and sculptures as well as etchings, lithographs and screenprints. In a career that stretched over 30 years, Larwill held over 25 solo exhibitions and participated in scores of group shows.

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Direct contact with isolated Aboriginal communities increased Larwill’s appreciation of Indigenous art and culture. He responded directly to the beauty of the landscape by making many studies on paper. The time away also gave Larwill a more considered perspective on environmental and political issues. In 1984, Larwill responded to the threat of nuclear war by creating an anti-war piece, Nuclear Disarmament Party.

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Ara Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. David Larwill celebrates birthday on June 26 of every year.

In 1986, Larwill was one of a number of Melbourne artists commissioned to paint a Melbourne W-class tram as part of the commemoration of the United Nations International Year of Peace. Larwill chose to paint images of war stridently outlined in black. His opposition to the unjust treatment of the first Australians led to the inclusion of works in pro-Aboriginal land rights exhibitions. Following an invitation to travel to Kakadu National Park and see its world-famous rock art sites in 1998, Larwill also participated in Stop Jabiluka Mine with Mark Schaller and Peter Walsh. The exhibition was held at Gould Galleries, Melbourne, in June 1998, as a protest against the proposed uranium mine that was planned for the wilderness area and park. In 2003 Larwill, Karan Hayman, Peter Walsh, Greg Ades, Tanya Hoddinott and Mark Schaller all travelled to Woomera and visited the proposed nuclear waste dump sites with indigenous leaders and then held exhibition of works ‘ Secret Country ‘ from the trip again at Gould Galleries to raise funds to support the cause.