From the White House to the Vatican, the collection of Presidents and Kings

Sydney-based artist Charles Billich is one of the most prominent living Australian painters. In a career spanning some forty years, he has exhibited at some of the world’s best venues and has been an honoured guest and resident artist on many occasions. From the Vatican Museum to the White House, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne to His Majesty King George V Tupou Palace in Tonga, the Red Cross Museum in Geneva to numerous university, government, corporate and private collections, Charles Billich has an eclectic and ubiquitous following.

“There is a touch of irony in what I paint as there is in all contemporary surreal art, my lingua franca for articulating the vast gamma of emotions and impulses inherent to mystic creations” Charles Billich.

Charles Billich has had a distinguished international association with the Olympic Movement over the course of five Olympiads where he was the artist for the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympic bids. He was also nominated as the official artist for the Rugby World Cup 2003, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He has been granted many awards and prizes, including the Order of the Crown by his majesty King George V Tupou, Sports Artist of the Year 2000 Award, the Order of the Eagle Exemplar and was nominated as the artist for the Eco Art Foundation by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Architecture and cityscapes, compassion and humanity, portraiture and figurative work, dance, music, theatre, equestrian sports, sailing all provide the imagery for his work and always in a way that challenges the norm. His editions and originals adorn boardrooms, galleries and collections across five continents.