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New Zealand artist

Godwin Bradbeer (born 1950) is a New Zealand-born artist now living and working in Melbourne, Australia.^{[citation needed]} Bradbeer is known for large-scale figurative drawing and has been exhibited internationally since the 1970s.

He has taught at the University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University, and other art schools in Australia and Asia. From 2005 to 2010, he was head of drawing of the School of Art at RMIT University in Melbourne.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Bradbeer was born in 1950 in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[1][2] In the same year, his family moved to Glasgow, Scotland, then migrated to Australia in 1955.^[3] In 1971, Bradbeer received a Higher Diploma of Secondary Education (Art/Craft) at the Melbourne Teachers College (now part of the University of Melbourne) and taught in Victorian high schools from 1972 to 1982.^[4] He returned to study i