British People of Australian Descent

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Leo McKern, Francis Bacon, Harry Kewell, Tom Hooper, Laura Robson, Rufus Sewell, Alex Winter, Lachlan Murdoch, Darcey Bussell, James Murdoch, Jonathan Hyde, Jason Connery, Jamie McMaster, Sarah Ioannides, Paul Colman, Australians in the United Kingdom, Nathan Gage, Ian Cugley, Brett Crosdale, Caroline Goodall, Kevin Murray, Meg Mundy, David Ward, Chris Brosnan, Luke Reeves, Brian Chambers, Johanna Konta, William Russell, Joanna McCallum, Wilberforce Eaves. Excerpt: Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 - 28 April 1992), was an Anglo-Irish figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. Later, he admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent too long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest. His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and figures of the late 1940s through to the mid 1950s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak chronicler of the human condition. From the mid 1960s, Bacon mainly produced portrait heads of friends. He often said in interviews that he saw images "in series," and his artistic output often saw him focus on single themes for sustained periods including his crucifixion, Papal heads, and later single and triptych heads series. He began by painting variations on the Crucifixion and later focused on half human-half grotesque portraits, best exemplified by the 1949 "Heads in a Room" series. Following the 1971 s...