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Australian artist

Theo Koning (born 1950 in the Netherlands) was a Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher, who for a time exhibited with the Galerie Dusseldorf in Perth.

Koning immigrated to Western Australia in 1953 at the age of three, and graduated in fine art at the Claremont Technical School in 1973, in the same year becoming one of the founding members of the Western Australian Sculptors' Association.

Koning's works have gained extensive representation in art galleries throughout Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia.

Koning died in 2022 at age 71.

Notes

  1. Snell, Ted (1985). Theo Koning stepping into the painter's world. In Art and Australia. 23 (1), 69-72.
  2. Snell, Ted (1979). Six artists working in Western Australia. In Art and Australia. 16 (4), 357-361.
  3. p 56-58 of Snell, Ted, 1949- & Goddard, Julian & Marcon, Marco & Curtin University of Technology. Visual Culture Research Unit (1991). In The Painted image : twenty contemporary Western Australian painters. Visual Culture Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology,
  4. In Woldendorp, Richard & Stringer, John (1995). Western Australian artists in residence. Sandpiper Press, West Perth.ISBN 0958945411
  5. A regional scenario: an interview with Theo Koning. -by Goddard, Julian- Praxis M, no.20, () 1988, pp. 28–31
  6. Annual Report 2007
  7. Annual Report 2002
  8. "Theo Koning (1950-2022)".


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