Howard Arkley, the great Australian painter of suburbia, has a retrospective showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 10 March 2007 to 6 May 2007. I love his use of colour and strong outline, and the way he fashions the ordinary into something quite amazing. Well worth checking out. [more about Howard Arkley]
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Zac said | 22 March, 2007
What a wise art teacher you have, Jess! We need more like them, I think 
Nerissa said | 27 March, 2007
Hey everyone!
just read jess’s comment, an im acually in art at the moment too… im doin a Howard Arkley esssay, and im searching for infomation to use, and i came across this website.
Thanks.
Riss
jessica said | 27 March, 2007
hey,
why dnt u have proper info on Howard Arkley.i cant find any webpages about his life eg. how many brothers,sisters,what did he do before he started painting,what type of boy was he in his childhood etc.????? because of this i am finding it very hard to finish my art essay.
XxOo
James said | 28 March, 2007
I am also finding it hard to find info about howard arkley i had to do a art essay on howard arkley
Zac said | 29 March, 2007
I didn’t realise we were becoming a reference site - sorry guys
Check out this link for starters: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/arkley/education/
brooke said | 29 March, 2007
Help need info about howard arkley
Mimi said | 17 April, 2007
i am doing a projected on howard arakly and i will say your site helped me alot!!!!
Zolton said | 17 April, 2007
Pleased to hear it Mimi. He’s a talented artist, but it seems that there isn’t a lot of information readily available on him, so glad that you could skim some from Lost At E Minor.
hoggish greedly said | 23 April, 2007
I cant ind any info on arkelys childhood!
ella said | 23 April, 2007
hay,
i can’t find any info on his life before he started painting HELP!!!!!!
thanx
Paddy said | 26 April, 2007
Help! I’m a lazy-arsed student who has to write an essay on Howard Arkley and expects to find his life history on a pop-cultural website which just happens to be highlighting the fact that he has a retrospective on at Art Gallery NSW
Josie said | 2 May, 2007
Ha! i can…
http://www.jca-online.com/arkley.html
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/arkley/education/
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/arkley/education/essays02.html
these are good.
do u guys all go 2 Rosny College by any chance?
Brady said | 10 May, 2007
Hello! Im currently in art researching Howard Arkley. My Teacher is bonkers. Anyways im doing an artwork of his. Well simiar one.
BYES!
amy said | 15 May, 2007
ps i also am doing an assignment on howard arkley and its hard 
port hacking high school is a good one
??? said | 16 May, 2007
hey
where is all t he pictures of him and onfo on his artwork
xxx
Bitty said | 29 May, 2007
hi where is a good website with stuff about Howard Arkley b cause I have 2 do a biography on him and I cant find ummm where he went 2 skool, where he worked b4 drawing and stuff like that!!! HELP ME PLEASE
Zephyr said | 29 May, 2007
Thanks for the website http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/arkley/education/essays01.html
It’s so helpful for my essay in 2D art. I got the book spray but it doesn’t help me answer much bout his life. Thank god i found this site since tomorrow is when the rough copy dues.
Bitty #2 said | 31 May, 2007
Hi, I am doing an assignment at school and I cant find anything about his life before painting and drawing. Can you give me some websites to try? because I need them by next week
xoxo thanks bubi
Bitty said | 31 May, 2007
hey gobble gobble howzit goin??? hehehehehe muwahahaha
dig said | 14 August, 2007
yeah wicked site u got here, love howard arkley and his look on life, mad bloke would have loved to meet him before he died
ella said | 30 August, 2007
guys, why would you have to write about Arkley before he started painting for an art assignment? An art assignment should focus on his ART.. as a biography assignment, however, it would be interesting.
Kirst said | 2 September, 2007
Because, Ella, they may be doing assignments similar to mine where they are required to write an article on the exhibition and on the man him self- and not just the works.
lozzz said | 20 September, 2007
hiii
i need to find out sum stuff on howard arkley
his use of colour, pattern, line and shape
HELP
xxx
Stevo said | 15 October, 2007
Another good website with bio’s is:
http://www.australianart.com.au/artists.php?ID=46
the above is Arkleys bio.
pandy said | 22 October, 2007
omg hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
FizzGig said | 22 October, 2007
Wow - I didn’t know so many people were into Howard Arkley…
…And how destroyed the english language seems to be…
pandy said | 22 October, 2007
yeah, aiiighhttt.
aleisha...;oD said | 17 February, 2008
just commenting on how amazing artist howard arkley is. im an artist myself and paint from the influences of my artistic upbringing, roy lichenstien, warhol, and most recently howard arkley. his perception of more architechural popart is fantastic.he is basically a formalist artist — who actually believe sin painting. Color’s an observed thing, but it’s only observed in a different context, one of which he has charactized beautifully. cheers!
Megannnnn. x. said | 19 February, 2008
im trying to find a picture of howard’s canvas titled “suparoom”
my art teacher is nuts, so i dont know if it even exsists seeing as i cant even find a picture of it…
gah! but if you know where i can get one from,
SOON that’d be GREAT (:
btw, wht is the point of this website??
no affence, but it isnt that helpful.
GAH!
Bec said | 22 July, 2008
Hey!…
Ironic that my wicked cool art teacher told us to research Howard Arkley aswell. HeHe
Personally i love his work! It’s so visionary and unrealistic in a sense that it is realisic. He was an amazing artist. X 
Rosie said | 25 March, 2009
i am doing an art essay on Arkley. i like his work 
pretty cool
reminds me of Warhol
maddy h said | 25 May, 2009
in photography i have gotta do a assignment on howard arkley and 2 of his pics
(nick cave & triple fronted (family home))
my photogrpahy teacher is like an art teacher too so we dont actually do any photography stuff, just art stuff, (its really boring)
i go to port hacking high school too amy lol :S
small world huh
howard arkley’s stuff is okay i guess lol
very colourful
i have clicked on some of the links and am about to look at them so lets hope theyre good lol
XxOo
tabitha said | 1 June, 2009
i need help with my year 12 art sac. i can not find any infomation on the internet about what howard arkleys insparation is, his techniqs, how he discribes his artworks what he was think while he was making his artworks. i have to pick two of his artworks and write two pages on each artwork. it is so hard to find all this information not only on arkley but on another 3 artist i have to do the sam on can some one tell me any helpful sites? it would be so much help
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Jess said | 22 March, 2007
Hi my name is jessica…. i am in art at the moment and the teacher told us to go on this sight. so i decided to leave a comment. So HIII Jess xxx