Brett Whiteley

  • Brett born in Sydney

  • Brett wins first painting competition at age 7

  • Brett sent to scots college, Bathurst

    Bathurst
  • Took night classes in Julian art school

  • Wins first prize in the young painters section in Bathurst show

  • Brett moved to london

  • Won the international prize at second Biennale de Paris

  • Married Wendy Julius

  • Lived in USA for 18 months

  • Returned to Australia

  • 'Alchemy'

  • first won archibald prize with 'self potrait in studio'

  • 'inferior in times past'

  • won archibald,sulman and wynee art prizes

  • spends the september in bali with Jeol elenberg and his family

  • Awarded order of Australia

  • Found dead from a herion overdose