About Francis Giacco
Born 1955. Francis Giacco is an Australian painter.
Francis Giacco (born 1955) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1994 with Homage to John Reichard. Giacco has a Bachelor of Architecture from the UNSW and is a longtime teacher at the Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks, Sydney. His classes are characterized by a structured and logical approach to the tradition of classical drawing and painting techniques.
He had been a finalist the previous year, with his portrait of SBS newsreader, Lee Lin Chin
In 2014 he won the Percival Portrait Painting Prize, with a portrait of Charles Blackman.
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Australian artist
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Francis Giacco was born in 1955.
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Francis Giacco is a painter.
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Francis Giacco is Australian.
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