Author: Gary Catalano

Gary Catalano was born in Brisbane in 1947 and educated at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney. In 1973 he was appointed art critic for Art and Australia magazine, and later served as art critic for the Melbourne Age between 1985 and 1990. His first book of poetry, Remembering the Rural Life, appeared in 1978, and from that time onwards he devoted himself to full-time writing. He published six volumes of poetry, as well as several works of art criticism, and a book of short stories. In 1992 he jointly won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for his book Empire of Grass: Twenty-Eight Poems 1983-1989. His major monograph on artist Rick Amor The Solitary Watcher appeared to wide acclaim in 2001. Gary Catalano died in Melbourne in 2002, having nearly completed his final volume of poetry The Master of Faux Bois and Other Poems.