oe Furlonger was born in Cairns in 1952. He grew up in the rural (now semi-rural) Samford Valley near Brisbane. As an adult he worked as a farmhand and on fishing boats, attended art schools in Brisbane and Sydney and, after a period of gestation and experimentation, launched an artistic career that has sustained over the decades and shows no signs of dissipating. He has travelled widely, and restlessly explored many different mediums. His public profile has prospered through representation by major galleries, particularly the Ray Hughes
