Daryl Austin


Daryl Austin is a South Australian painter and arts educator, best known for portraiture. He has won several art prizes including the Heysen Landscape Prize 2018 and the Whyalla Art Prize in 1998 and 2002.

Biography

Daryl Austin was born in Lincoln in the UK in 1964. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the South Australian College of Advanced Education in 1986. He has worked at the South Australian Museum and began teaching at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2001. His paintings are held in the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Artistic style and subject

Austin is a realist painter best known for his portraiture and has undertaken commissions for the South Australian Parliament and the University of Adelaide. In recent years, he has experimented with fictional portraits based on vintage photographs.

Awards/prizes/residencies