Martin sharpe biography
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Martin Sharp
Australian artist
For the English historian, see Martin Sharp (historian).
Martin sharpe biography
For the British sailor, see Martin Sharp (sailor).
Martin Ritchie SharpAM (21 January – 1 December [1]) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker.
Career
Sharp was born in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales in , and educated at Cranbrook private school, where one of his teachers was the artist Justin O'Brien.
In , Sharp enrolled at the National Art School at East Sydney.
He was one of the editors of Oz, an Australia/UK alternative/underground satire magazine published from to and associated with the international counterculture of that era.
Sharp was called Australia's foremost pop artist.[2] He wrote the lyrics of the Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses,"[3] and created the cover art for Cream's Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Firealbums.
He designed at least two posters for Australia's premier contemporary circus, Circus Oz,