George Gittoes (b. 1949) is a major Australian artist, photographer and filmmaker, and founding member of the Yellow House Artist Collective, Sydney, in 1970. For nearly four decades he has been witness to some of the world’s most notorious conflicts, including Rwanda, Iraq, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Gittoes is described simultaneously as a figurative painter, a modernist, a post-modernist, a social realist, a pop artist and an expressionist. Through drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, film making, poetry and spoken word he reflects and tells the stories of what he has seen and experienced. Acclaimed as one of Australia’s most important artists, he was awarded the 2015 Sydney Peace Prize in recognition of his life's work contributing to the peacemaking process. In 1995 he won the Blake Prize for Religious Art was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of NSW in 2008.
In 2016 Gittoes was a finalist in the Sulman Art Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW and his documentary "Snow Monkey' was selected in the Brisbane Asian Film Festival. His work is held in all major and regional public Australian art collections.
