George Baldessin, (1939 - 1978)

Despite only having an exhibiting career of just 14 short years – from the time of his first solo exhibition at Melbourne’s Argus Gallery in 1964 to his death in a car accident in 1978, George Baldessin’s work endures, continuing to resonate with audiences who have been able to experience his practice in a variety of new exhibition contexts and through new research.1

Baldessin’s work remains fresh and contemporary, and the highly personal and interconnected iconography of his printmaking, drawings and sculpture have ensured that he now holds an established position in the history of recent Australian art. Baldessin began attending the Lacourière lithographic printworks three days a week in ...