Ondrej Mares [SEP] country of citizenship
Ondrej Mares
Ondrej Mares (11 February 1949 – 19 March 2008) was a Czech-Australian artist and furniture designer who lived in Macclesfield, South Australia. His work has been exhibited in Adelaide, Sydney and Prague. Mares is most famous for his Kachina pieces. In 2002, he was diagnosed with cancer, which had the effect of shifting his focus from larger pieces to smaller more compact pieces. Also, clues to his sickness manifested in later works, such as his Kachina titled 'Stem Cells'. Mares
arts educator
- Dorrit Black - modernist printmaker and painter
- Michal Dutkiewicz - comic book artist and illustrator, three-time winner of the Stanley Award
- Robert Hannaford - portrait artist, three-time winner of the People's Choice Award of the Archibald Prize
- Sir Hans Heysen - landscape painter, nine-time winner of the Wynne Prize
- Nora Heysen - portrait artist, first female winner of the Archibald Prize
- Ondrej Mares - sculptor and furniture maker
- Jeffrey Smart - precisionist landscape