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Harry Hummerston is a distinguished artist and educator from Western Australia. He has left a significant mark on the international and Australian art scenes. With a career spanning three decades in art education, he has taught at primary schools since the mid-1970s and served as the Head of the Department of Art at Curtin University in Western Australia from 2003 to 2005.

His work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including those of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Thailand, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Australian War Memorial in the Australian Capital Territory, as well as the Kerry Stokes Collection and the Janet Holmes à Court Collection.