Bio
William (Bill) Coleman (Australian 1922-1993)
William (Bill) Coleman was born in Ballarat Victoria in 1922. He studied at from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), later he worked with and studied under George Bell for six years, later in his career he used his photolithographic skills to create some amazing photographs and also worked with cartographic drawings, pottery and illustrations including painting for over 30 years, from everything from children’s books to working in the Minton’s Pottery Studio Designing Wares & Decorative items.
Bill is well known for his colorful street scenes and nudes a number of them he did not title.
Bill won numerous awards including the ACI award at Victorian Artist Society winter exhibition in 1977, diploma for the best ten in composition Twenty-Eight Grand Prix International, France 1977 and won Applied Chemicals Pty Ltd Art Prize at VAS winter exhibition 1977
Bill was married to Benita-Amalie Coleman (Huik) (1911-1980)
Bill later died in 1993












