# Garry Shead artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/garry-shead/
Profile generated: 2026-08-19T09:47:55.405Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting, Experimental film, Drawings

## About Garry Shead

Garry Shead is an Australian artist, painter, and filmmaker born in 1942. His practice is represented in public and private collections in Australia and overseas, and he received the Archibald Prize in 1992. Shead has also worked across experimental film and drawing, with bibliographic records documenting his involvement as an illustrator and artist. His career includes periods spent in Japan, Papua New Guinea, France, Austria, and Hungary, followed by a return to Australia in the 1980s. Collectors may encounter Shead through paintings, works on paper, drawings, illustrated publications, and related mixed-media material. Because the supplied public record is concise, individual works should be assessed from their documented title, date, medium, dimensions, provenance, condition, and attribution rather than from artist-name matching alone.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records may include paintings, works on paper, prints, drawings, sculpture, mixed-media works, decorative art, editions, and illustrated or publication-related material. The supplied authority record also documents experimental films and Shead’s role as an illustrator. For a particular object, identify the medium and support, dimensions, date or period, edition information where applicable, signature or inscription, condition, provenance, and any exhibition or catalogue references before comparing it with auction results.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s supplied market index records substantial public auction activity for Garry Shead, including 847 tracked lots and 46 recorded sales in the latest 12-month period reported on the page. The page reports a median realized sale of about $850, but this figure is a broad reference point rather than a prediction for any individual work. Appraisal depends on comparable medium, scale, date, condition, provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, signature and attribution, edition details, subject, and the treatment of buyer premiums or fees. Public records may omit private transactions or contain incomplete attribution and feed data.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5524221
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/62355521/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/08852776X
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Shead
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/garry-shead/