Born in Detmold, Germany in 1944, Karl Wiebke studied Fine Art at the Hochschule für bildende Künst in Hamburg from 1972-1976 before arriving in Australia in 1981. He settled in Perth for a period of 20 years and then relocated in Melbourne in 2001, where he currently lives and works. Wiebke has won several notable awards including the Australia Council Artists Development Fellowships Grant in 1990, the Australia-India Council Grant of 1999 and an Arts WA Creative Development Grant Fellowship in 2000. Wiebke’s contribution to Australian painting was celebrated in 1994 with a major retrospective exhibition, Karl Wiebke: Painting 1971-1993 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, and most recently the survey exhibition Karl Wiebke: Painting 1994-2012 held at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra in 2012. In 2013, Wiebke’s paintings featured in the Wesfarmers Collection touring exhibition Luminous Worlds at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Charles Darwin University Art Gallery.