Ivor Hele
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Ivor Hele (1912-1993) was an Australian artist. He was the longest serving war artist for the Australian War Memorial and completed more commissioned works than any other Australian artist in the history of Australian art.
He was the first war artist appointed in the Second World War, and he served in New Guinea and North Africa. He was also a war artist in the Korean War.
He won Australia's most prestigious portrait prize, the Archibald Prize five times, for these works in the following years:
- 1951 - Laurie Thomas
- 1953 - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS
- 1954 - Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP
- 1955 - Robert Campbell Esq
- 1957 - Self Portrait
He painted a portrait of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser which is hanging in the New Parliament House in Canberra
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