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Known for his abstract paintings, artist Ross Laurie was born in Walcha, located in the northern tablelands of NSW in 1961. Laurie studied Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts in 1982. In 1984 and 1985 the artist travelled to London to complete a Foundation Course at St Martin’s School of Arts, and then continued his studies at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University, UK).

Upon returning to Australia, Laurie relocated to Melbourne in 1985 and graduated from a course in painting at the Victorian College Prahan in 1986. Laurie returned to Walcha in 1990, where he currently lives and practices.

Laurie has won the inaugural Norville Prize for Landscape Painting, the COFA Print Award at the Paddington Art Prize and the Kings School Art Prize. He has also been selected as a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Biennial and the Wynne Prize, both at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Notably, Laurie’s work has been selected for the Salon des Refuses ten times between 1995 and 2019.

The artist’s work can be found in numerous state and corporate collections such as Artbank, AGNSW, National Gallery of Australia, New England Regional Art Museum, Tamworth Regional Gallery, the Laverty Collection Sydney, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Macquarie Bank Collection and NRMA Sydney.

Ross Laurie has been represented by King Street Gallery since 2014. He lives and works on his family farm, Rams Gully, in Walcha NSW.