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Donald Friend
Australian artist and diarist
Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February – 16 August ) was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life overseas.
He has been the subject of controversy since the posthumous publication of diaries in which he wrote about how he sexually abused children during his time in Bali.
Early life
Born in Sydney, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother and showed early talent both as an artist and as a writer.
Biography.He studied with Sydney Long () and Antonio Dattilo Rubbo (–), and later in London (–) at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky. During World War II he served as a gunner with the AIF, and while stationed at Albury began a friendship with Russell Drysdale, which led to their joint discovery of Hill End, a quasi-abandoned gold mining village near Bathurst, New South Wales, which in the s became something of an artists' colony.
He also served as an official war artist in