Noel Tunks was an Australian artist who worked for many years from his rural property in Avoca, Victoria, Australia. Born in Maryborough in 1943, Tunks studied Fine Art at RMIT in Melbourne and on study trips to India, Italy and the U.K. In 1978, he was awarded the prestigious Blake Prize for Religious Art. In 2016, Central Goldfields Art gallery hosted a major retrospective of Tunks life and work, bringing together a selection of Tunks’ paintings and drawings, as well as archival ephemera from an intriguing career spanning over 40 years.