Humphries, Oscar

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Name	Humphries, Oscar Gender: M
Birthname	Oscar Valentine Humphries
born on	27 April 1981 at 02:05 (= 02:05 AM )
Place	Sydney, Australia, 33s52, 151e13
Timezone	AEST h10e (is standard time)
Data source	News report Rodden Rating A Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	06°19' 27°27 Asc. 10°40'

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Biography

Australian fine art and design dealer, curator and journalist from a noted family. The son of the satirist Barry Humphries (of "Dame Edna" fame) and his third wife, the surrealist painter Diane Millstead, he was educated at Bryanston School and Stowe School in Southern England.

Since 2000, he has written on a variety of subjects including art and design for British newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and Tatler. In 2007 Humphries was made a contributing editor of The Spectator and was the launch editor of The Spectator Australia in 2008. He was editor of Press Holdings's art magazine Apollo from 2010 until 2013.

As director of Sebastian + Barquet London he curated shows on Carlo Mollino, Paolo Venini and Rick Owens. As head of international sales for Timothy Taylor Gallery he curated "The Tightrope Walker" with Emma Dexter. In 2016, he curated the exhibition "Albers & the Bauhaus", examining the artist's pre-war output in the context of the work of his peers.

In 2018 he married Sophie Oakley; the couple has two children.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• child->parent relationship with Humphries, Barry (born 17 February 1934)

• sibling relationship with Humphries, Rupert (born 25 October 1982)

Events

• Relationship : Marriage 2018 (Sophie Oakley)

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes birth news, "Dame Edna Gets Her first Oscar," The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 1981, page 9; born at Sydney's King George V Hospital.

Categories

• Family : Childhood : Advantaged (Private school education)

• Family : Childhood : Family noted (Son of Barry Humphries)

• Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Third of four)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two sons)

• Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (London, England)

• Vocation : Business/Marketing : Sales (Art dealer)

• Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist

• Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter (Editor of art and culture magazines)

• Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Editor of art and culture magazines)