Join the GAG group and Ian Britain who has written a Biography of the Australian Artist Donald Friend, concentrating on the first 20 years of the artist’s life.The book explores the experiences and influences that shaped a significant and controversial figure in Australian Ar t.

Ian Britain’s biography brings together rich and revealing detail of Friend’s life and career.There are fresh investigations of the myths, and less glamorous realities, of his ancestral and family background. These various narrative strands are deftly set within the framework of turbulent international events and developments: two world wars, a major economic depression, the waning of empire and the burgeoning of modernism in the arts worldwide