Friend, Donald

Artist, author and diarist. Friend served as an artillery gunner in Borneo and Morotai during the War. See "Encyclopedia of Australian Art", vol. 1, p. 384.

Murray studied art under Datillo Rubbo. Old friend of Donald Friend. Murray lived with Friend at Hill End, N.S.W. around 1947.

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend was born in N.S.W. He studied and exhibited art overseas as well as in Australia, and won competitions such as the Blake Prize for religious painting in 1955. After periods of living in various countries, including 5 years in Ceylon, he returned to Australia in 1962, but moved to Bali in 1967. He died in 1989.

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend, artist, was born in NSW. He studied and exhibited his art overseas as well as in Australia. He won the Blake Prize for religious painting in 1955. He lived overseas for considerable periods, including Java and Bali.

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend was born in Moree, NSW, in 1915. He studied art in Sydney 1933-1934 and in London 1935-1936; then spent two years (1938-1940) painting in Nigeria. He served with the AIF as a Gunner and as an official war artist during World War II in Labuan, Borneo and Morolai. After the war he studied and painted in Italy, Ceylon, and in the Islands of North Australia. He returned to live in Ceylon from 1957 to 1962. From 1967 until 1982 he lived in Sanur, Bali. The cultural experience of these various geographical regions reflects strongly in both his painting and writing.

John Radford went to Cranbrook school with Donald Friend.