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Ian Henderson (fine artist)

Biography

Ian Henderson (born 15 October 1939) is a UK/Australian fine artist, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and author. His work has been recognised in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and spans landscape, genre works, portraiture, design, and illustration. Henderson’s career includes early appointments in Britain, notably as the first artist to be appointed to a UK New Town Development Corporation at Skelmersdale, Lancashire.

Since relocating to Australia, he has combined studio practice and commissions with academic roles, including senior positions at the University of Newcastle, Queensland College of Art, and the University of New England, where he established visual art and design programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His exhibitions, from the 1960s to the present, explore themes of sense of place, memory, and overlooked perspectives, expressed most recently in his forthcoming book Flying Under the Radar.

Henderson is a Petherick Reader at the National Library of Australia, an Honorary Permanent Member of the National Portrait Gallery (Canberra), and holds a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong. His honours include a Gulbenkian Fellowship in Painting at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, and First Artist in Residence at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

Henderson lives and works in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory and continues to paint, write and illustrate his works. His most recent portrait work includes two portraits of Colonel Catherine McGregor, AM.