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george gittoes http://www.gittoes.com/ 1970 -- present sydney , australia 7 december 1949 -lrb- age 65 -rrb- george gittoes 2.jpg george gittoes
 film director , producer , writer and artist
george gittoes

george noel gittoes -lrb- 7 december 1949 -- present -rrb- is a major australian artist and filmmaker .
in 1970 he was a founder of the yellow house artist collective in sydney .
after the yellow house finished , he established himself in bundeena and since then has produced a large and varied output of drawings , paintings , films , and writings .
gittoes ' work has consistently expressed his social , political and humanitarian concern at the effects of injustice and conflict .
until the mid-1980s , this work was chiefly done in australia .
but in 1986 he travelled to nicaragua , and since then the focus of gittoes ' work has been largely international .
he has travelled to and worked in many regions of conflict , including the philippines , somalia , cambodia , rwanda , bosnia , bougainville , and south africa .
in recent years his work has especially centred on the middle east , with repeated visits to israel and palestine , iraq , and afghanistan .
in 2011 , he established a new yellow house , a multidisciplinary arts centre in jalalabad , afghanistan .
among many prizes , gittoes has twice been awarded the blake prize for religious art .
