The Daily Telegraph: Archibald Prize winning artist Guy Warren to turn 100 and is still painting

The Daily Telegraph: Archibald Prize winning artist Guy Warren to turn 100 and is still painting

Article by Elizabeth Fortescue

The National Centre for Drawing in Darlinghurst is honouring Warren with its first ever exhibition, which opens on his birthday. The centre celebrates experimental drawing and is an initiative of the National Art School where Warren studied after the war.

“On the day I was discharged from the army, I walked up to the National Art School and enrolled,” he said.

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