birth_place training awards nationality field birth_date article_title name
albury , new south wales , australia university of newcastle , university of new south wales sulman -lrb- 2013 -rrb- archibald prize -lrb- 2015 -rrb- prize -lrb- 2012 -rrb- doug moran portrait prize australian painting , 1975 nigel milsom
 nigel milsom
nigel milsom

nigel milsom is an australian painter .
milsom was born in 1975 in the southern new south wales city of albury .
he completed a bachelor 's degree in visual arts at the university of newcastle in 1998 and a master 's degree in fine arts at the college of fine arts of the university of new south wales in 2002 .
his painting `` judo house pt 6 -lrb- the white bird -rrb- '' , a portrait of barrister charles waterstreet , won the 2015 archibald prize .
in 2014 milsom won the doug moran national portrait prize for his painting .
`` uncle paddy '' and in 2012 he won the sulman prize for his painting `` judo house pt 4 -lrb- golden mud -rrb- '' .
gallery owner and art dealer kerry crowley described milsom 's work as `` influenced by the nineteenth-century japanese master hokusai , edward hopper , white-on-white abstractionist robert ryman , gerhard richter , and pop figurative painter alex katz . ''
in 2014 , milsom was convicted and sentenced to a maximum six-and-a-half years imprisonment for the april 2012 armed robbery , while under the influence of drugs and alcohol , of a 7-eleven in glebe , an inner neighbourhood of sydney .
the sentence was reduced on appeal to two years and four months ' imprisonment .
milsom was released from cessnock correctional centre on parole on april 2015 .
