Martin sharpe biography
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Martin Sharp
Australian artist
For the English historian, see Martin Sharp (historian). For the British sailor, see Martin Sharp (sailor).
Martin Ritchie SharpAM (21 January 1942 – 1 December 2013[1]) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker.
Career
[edit]Sharp was born in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales in 1942, and educated at Cranbrook private school, where one of his teachers was the artist Justin O'Brien.
In 1960, Sharp enrolled at the National Art School at East Sydney.
He was one of the editors of Oz, an Australia/UK alternative/underground satire magazine published from 1963 to 1973 and associated with the international counterculture of that era.
Sharp was called Australia's foremost pop artist.[2] He wrote the lyrics of the Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses,"[3] and created the cover art for Cream's Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Firealbums.
He designed at least two posters for Australia's premier contemporary circus, Circus Oz, including the 'World-famous'/'Non-Stop Energy' design.
Later interests
[edit]For most of the 1970s and beyond, Sharp's work and life was dominated by two major interests: Sydney's Luna Park and the entertainer Tiny Tim.
Luna Park
[edit]Sharp's involvement
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Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp (1942-2013), printmaker, painter, cartoonist, designer, songwriter and film-maker, is one of Australia's foremost pop artists. Born in Sydney, Sharp was founding co-editor with Richard Neville and Richard Walsh of Oz magazine, contributing humorous and often sexually explicit cartoons to the controversial journal. When he and Neville re-located Oz to London, Sharp continued as art director. He began producing posters for sale through the magazine including his celebration of Bob Dylan, Mr Tambourine Man, the electrically charged portrait of Jimi Hendrix, Exploding guitar, and several in support of the 'legalise pot rallies' at Hyde Park. Sharp lived for a time with Cream lead singer Eric Clapton, collaborating with him on song lyrics and designing album covers for the band. Returning to Australia in 1969 Sharp was instrumental in setting up the 'Yellow House', an artists' space at Potts Point in Sydney, formerly the Clune Galleries, which became a focus of the underground art scene of the 1960s. Sharp is well known for his poster designs for the Nimrod theatre in the 1970s, and for his obsessions with Tiny Tim, toys and Luna Park. The National Portrait Gallery holds one of Sharp's best-known paintings, Young Mo, which became Nimrod's signature image.