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Australian artist
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Male
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Birth:
1963(Launceston, Tasmania, Australia)
Residences
Brisbane
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Biography
Michael Eather (born 1963) is a contemporary Australian artist, based in Brisbane who helped found the Campfire Group, a significant cross-cultural artistic collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
Eather grew up and was educated in Tasmania. Following his graduation from the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1983, he spent time in the indigenous community of Maningrida, which became the starting point for decades of inter-cultural artistic collaboration.