painter and sketcher. Hele studied art at Adelaide’s Prince Alfred College, the South Australian School of Arts and in Europe. He first came to national attention with a number of prizewinning history paintings in the 1930s.
Appointed an official war artist during World War II and Korea, Hele’s work was widely distributed in exhibitions and books.
Hele was a prolific Archibald Prize winner during the 1950s (1951; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1957). “Once I start a portrait I like to go straight through until it’s finished. While I’m doing it I think it, dream it – I’m obsessed by that one thing… the human face and the human form are always the greatest things to me…” he explained in 1962.
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- Writers:
- Riddler, Eric
- Date written:
- 2007
- Last updated:
- 2011
