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New Zealand-born Australian painter and teacher
- Painter Roland Wakelin (17 April 1887 – 28 May 1971) was a New Zealand-born Australian painter and teacher.
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Roland Wakelin (17 April 1887 – 28 May 1971) was a New Zealand-born Australian painter and teacher. Early life. Roland Shakespeare Wakelin was born on 17 April 1887 in Greytown, New Zealand. He studied at Wellington Technical School from 1902 to 1903.
Modernist painter, Roland Wakelin, was born in New Zealand in 1887. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1912 where he studied under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo and Norman Carter at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
Roland Wakelin had many influences on the Sydney art scene as he taught and exhibited throughout his 50 year career. Together with De Maistre and Cossington-Smith he is regarded as a founding member of the modern movement in Sydney.
Roland Shakespeare Wakelin (1887-1971), artist, was born on 17 April 1887 at Greytown, New Zealand, youngest of seven children of Richard Alfred Wakelin, an English-born timber merchant, and his wife Emily, née Noakes, from Auckland. Roland began sketching and painting as a boy.
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A pioneer of contemporary painting, Roland Shakespeare Wakelin came to be regarded as the chief instigator of the modern art movement in Australia.
Roland Wakelin Biography. Roland Wakelin, along with Roy de Maistre аnd Grace Cossington Smith, аre regarded аs founding the modern movement іn Sydney. He studied аt Wellington Technical School, New Zealand 1902–03 then took night classes іn painting under Henri Bastings.
Roland Wakelin was a pioneer of the modern art movement in Australia, and his example enabled the later emergence of abstraction. In the year 1920, Melboune’s Max Meldrum and his tonal realism travelled to Sydney where his style made an instantaneous impact on the city’s art scene.
