Raymond Arnold

Raymond Arnold (b.1950) is an Australian printmaker and painter based in Queenstown, Tasmania.

Career Born in Melbourne, Arnold visited Queenstown, Tasmania during his teens and witnessed the impact mining had on the local landscape. He would later move to the town and feature the Queenstown landscape in his work.

Arnold studied art and teaching in Melbourne, and worked as a high school teacher until 1976 when he left to pursue further study at Chisholm Institute. After moving to Tasmania in 1983 he taught art at the University of Tasmania. National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. His work is also held in international collections of the Imperial War Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, and Musée Courbet.

Prizes

1999 Fremantle Print Award. 2001 Geelong Print Prize. 2001 Centenary Medal for outstanding achievement in the visual arts. 2007 Glover Prize for Western Mountain Ecology. 2017 Glover Prize for La Barque de Dante/Macquarie Harbour Party Barge.