The Artist

Paul Galy OAM

The Artist

PAUL GALY was born in Hungary in 1947. He was among the first Hungarian refugees to arrive in Australia after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. His talent for painting and drawing became apparent at a very early age. The translocation from Europe may have helped to trigger his passion for art, which became a full-time preoccupation in his high-school days.

After graduating from Enmore Boy’s High School in 1963, he attended art classes at East Sydney Technical College. In 1965 he travelled to Toronto, Canada, where he worked as a commercial artist, and then to Paris, France, where he sustained himself by joining an artists’ colony in Montmartre and painting caricatures for tourists.

On returning to Australia in 1967 he had a successful exhibition of his overseas work at the Norman Lindsay Art Gallery. He soon married, joined the family business, and with his wife, Rhonda, had two children, Gary and Eva. Continuing to explore his own artistic expression, he experimented with a variety of mediums and to date has built up an extensive collection of his own paintings.