Nigel Milsom
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University of New South Wales (BFA Hons, MFA)
Doug Moran Portrait Prize (2013)
Archibald Prize (2015)
Nigel Milsom | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 50–51) Albury, New South Wales, Australia |
| Education | University of Newcastle (BA) University of New South Wales (BFA Hons, MFA) |
| Awards | Sulman Prize (2012) Doug Moran Portrait Prize (2013) Archibald Prize (2015) |
Nigel Milsom is an Australian painter.
Milsom was born in 1975 in the southern New South Wales city of Albury. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) at the University of Newcastle in 1998, and then undertook postgraduate studies at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2002.[1] Milsom worked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the early 2000s as a Gallery Services officer and credits this experience as another part of his art education.[2]
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.[3] The sentence was reduced on appeal to two years and four months’ imprisonment. Milsom was released from Cessnock Correctional Centre on parole in April 2015.[4]