Jack Dew Laurenti on 3 March 1937. A niece, sculptor Marcia Rankin, inherited Hele's sketchbooks, which she presented to the Australian War Memorial. On 24 March 1932, Hele married Millicent Mary Jean Berry, a school teacher, at the Manse, Germein Street, Semaphore, South Australia. They divorced in 1957 and he married June Weatherly. Hele was severely self-critical and only ever held two exhibitions of his work, in 1931 and 1958. He was a perfectionist who often burned paintings he was dissatisfied with. Hele died in the South Australian suburb of Bedford Park and was cremated. Works and awards He was commissioned to paint the opening of Federal Parliament by the Queen during her visit in 1954. He painted portraits of Prime Ministers Sir William McMahon and Malcolm Fraser, which are hanging in the New Parliament House in Canberra. His portrait of Sir Thomas Blamey is held by the Australian War Memorial, as is one of Tom Derrick VC., with whom Hele had trained in 1940. His portrait of Sir Lyell McEwin, longtime leader of the South Australian Legislative Council, hangs in Parliament House, Adelaide. His portrait of Professor Chapman hangs in the University of Adelaide's Chapman Theatre. The National Portrait Gallery holds his portraits of Claude Charlick, Sir Lloyd Dumas and Senator, Dame Nancy Buttfield. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds Hele's portraits of Sir Hans Heysen and archivist Lyndon Dadswell, as well as his 1938 Sturt's reluctant decision to return. The State Library of New South Wales has his 1957 self-portrait and a portrait of playwright Max Afford. His portrait of Edward Hayward hangs in the Carrick Hill mansion built for that businessman, founder of John Martin's Christmas Pageant. Portraits of Sir Donald Bradman and the Duke of Gloucester. Archibald Prize He won Australia's most prestigious portrait prize, the Archibald Prize five times, for these works in the following years: 1951 – Laurie Thomas (held by the State Library of New South Wales) 1953 - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS 1954 - Rt Hon Sir R. G. Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP 1955 – Robert Campbell Esq. 1957 – Self Portrait Melrose Prize He won the Melrose Prize (awarded by the Royal South Australian Society of Arts for the Art Gallery of South Australia) three times: 1935 – James Ferries Esq. (other portraits by him were of H. E. Fuller and Dr. Fenner). 1936 1939