OA29 – Bruce Fletcher (1935-1997) “Feeding the Chickens”

Fletcher was born in Melbourne in 1937. He studied at Prahan College of Advanced Educated and privately under William Dargie. Fletcher was the first of two official war artists appointed during the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War, where he was wounded, he turned increasingly to portraiture, received many commissions and was a finalist in the Archibald. He was a lecturer at the Caulfield Institute of Technology.