Jan Senbergs arrived in Australia at the age of ten, after fleeing the turmoil on World War II in Latvia. With little formal training as a painter, Senbergs has exhibited regularly since the 1960s and has had major solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2008), Deakin University Art Gallery (2011) and the Australian Print Workshop (2012).

He has received deserved critical recognition throughout his impressive artistic career including numerous awards, fellowships and commissions, from the huge mural in the High Court of Australia in the 1970s to the prestigious posting as the Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in the late 1980s. Senbergs is the only Australian artist to receive...