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Matcham Skipper

1963
Mark Strizic

gelatin silver photograph on paper (sheet: 26.5 cm x 34.8 cm)
Matcham Skipper

Matcham Skipper (1921-2011) was born in Melbourne, and studied at the Victorian artists' colony Monsalvat under the tutelage of its founder, the artist and philosopher Justus Jorgensen. Matcham Skipper was known for his proficiency in a variety of arts, including film-making, metalwork, jewellery-making, silversmithing, and clay modelling. teaching the two latter disciplines at Monsalvat. His wrought-iron screens can be seen at the front entrance to the Australian National University's H. C. Coombs building.

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2003
© Estate of Mark Strizic

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Artist and subject

Mark Strizic (age 35 in 1963)

Matcham Skipper (age 42 in 1963)

Subject professions

Visual arts and crafts

Supported by

Basil P. Bressler (44 portraits supported)

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Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
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Poet of the Fleeting Moment

Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2004

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