George Edmond Finey (16 March 1895 – 8 June 1987) was an Australian black-and-white artist, noted for his unconventional appearance and left-wing politics.
While working as an apprentice lithographer at the New Zealand Herald, he studied part-time at the Elam School of Art, sharing a studio with Unk White.
[1] He also worked for the Daily Telegraph, which he left in 1945 after he and Will Mahony refused to draw an anti-Labor cartoons,[3] and the Militant Minority Movement paper, The Red Leader.
He has made a whole series out of rolled-up, varnished newspapers, and he is adding to his History of Music with portraits of composers done in plastic foam, etched out with fine sandpaper.
[2] Finey was one of the 25 foundation members of the Black and White Artists' Society (later Club),[6] and was prominent in its activities until shortly before he died.