Geoff Dyer - Australian Landscape

 

 Geoff Dyer (1947 – 2020) "Geoff was a true innovator within the contemporary art scene, helping draw national attention towards the rugged beauty and rich natural assets of Tasmania through his commanding interpretations.   Geoff lived and breathed paint, constantly driven to make his mark and share his love of the landscape, in all its many forms and ambience.Geoff had a highly celebrated professional career spanning over fifty years, with countless solo exhibition nationally, as well as exhibitions in Singapore, Guangdong and New York.  His work is held in numerous important collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Artbank, the University of Tasmania, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). He has been hung in the New South Wales Art Gallery over twenty times as a finalist in the Archibald Prize, the Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize.  Most notably, Geoff won the Archibald Prize in 2003, with a portrait of author, conservationist and friend, Richard Flanagan. Geoff remains only the second Tasmanian to ever win the Archibald prize.
His love of Tasmania, its people and landscape will continue to resonate through the legacy of what can only be described as a momentous and critical body of work.Geoff’s significant creative achievements reflect his determination and passion as great artist. His paintings continued to increase in visual strength over the decades, ensuring that his iconic large scale works will remain an important part of Tasmania’s cultural history for years to come."(despard-gallery.com.au)

 

Susan Willemse

Susan Willemse  -  Australia.
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Australian birds Art Gallery, Canberra
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Spinebill on Kangaroo Paw 20“x 16” 2018

Peacock 24“x 24” 2018

“Hope” Rainbow Lorikeet 18”x 14” 2017

Green Catbird 16“x 12” 2019

Charles Blackman - Alice in Wonderland

"Charles Blackman is an Australian painter known for works that incorporate scenes from Alice in Wonderland such as his Feet Beneath the Table (1956). In both his Schoolgirl and Alice series, Blackman conveys narrative events from his character’s point of view, by using exaggerated angles and strong directional light. “The artist’s job is to discover new meaning in his life,” he has said. Born on August 12, 1928 in Sydney, Australia, Blackman was largely self-taught, and became an illustrator at the Sun newspaper before moving to Melbourne in the mid-1940s. Following the move, Blackman befriended fellow artists Joy Hester, John Perceval, and Laurence Hope, and gained the support of the art critic and patron John Reed. In 1959, Blackman collaborated with a number of figurative artists, including John Brack, Arthur Boyd, and Robert Dickerson to create The Antipodeans group, which railed against Australian artists adopting American Abstract Expressionism and other non-figurative styles. He went on to receive the Order of the British Empire and continues to live and work in Sydney, Australia. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others."(artnet)

Margery Edwards

Margery Edwards (1933–1989) was an Australian Abstract Expressionist artist working in mixed media."Born in Newcastle, NSW, in 1933, Edwards was the daughter of a civil engineer. As a child, she was fortunate to be allowed to accompany him on trips into the bush, where he worked on water supply projects. Experiencing the beauty and immensity of the landscape and observing the lives of the people who worked it probably shaped Edwards’ strong affinity for the bush, and helped to develop the spirituality that permeated her work throughout her life.According to her niece, Geraldine Griffin, the Edwards family moved to the north shore of Sydney, to Lindfield. Here, she went to school and later trained as a nurse, achieving BA (Hons) in nursing in 1956, at 23 years of age. However, meeting her future husband, David Edwards, a research physician, later changed the predicted course of her life.Between 1959 and 1960, Edwards was resident in New York. The next year, in her late twenties, Edwards returned to Sydney and started her art training. Initially she took private tuition with Dora Jarret (1904-1983), a French trained Australian painter, printmaker and teacher. Desiderius Oban (1884-1986), a renowned Hungarian-born Australian painter and printmaker, and one of the last post-impressionist style painters in the art world, was also her teacher. Themes of a philosophical and reflective nature along with explorations of spirituality, were shared with her contemporary, Rodney Milgate (1934) now a highly regarded poet, writer and playwright. Significantly both Oban and Milgate were of a spiritual nature (and winners of the Blake Prize for Religious Art), which may have played an important influence in Edwards’ ongoing artistic and spiritualistic expression.In 1969, Edwards studied in Milan at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, the purpose of which was “to provide teaching in the arts to craftsmen and private artists subject to public supervision and public opinion”. From Italy, Edwards travelled to the Morley College of Art in London, arriving in 1970. Morley College, not unlike the Bauhaus, offered a wide education in all the arts and crafts, drama, dance and music and would have given Edwards a well-rounded artistic grounding, as well as developing her painting and printmaking skills.In the early 1970s, Edwards had already started exhibiting her work. Two one-woman shows were held at the Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, and another two in Milan. Her earlier work, as seen in Mother and Child: 1971 and Eyes of a Labyrinth: 1971 is both rhythmic and dynamic, while the simpler Two Circles and a Line: 1971 and Geometric: 1970, are concerned with volume, space and balance."(margeryedwards.com)In 1985, Edwards' black paint began to merge into deep colors: ochres, earthy reds and deep blues. These paintings, writes curator Jeanne Wilkinson, "portrayed darkness as a universal constant; not empty but filled with some mysterious presence; an origin, not a lack of light".

Gunter Christmann - Australian abstract art

Gunter Christmann (23 April 1936 - 19 November 2013) was a German-born Australian painter.Born in Berlin, Christmann emigrated to Australia in 1959. Regarded as a painter's painter, Christmann has been making abstract and figurative paintings since the early 1960s and has exhibited frequently since 1965 throughout Australia and overseas. He has been labelled as one of the major Australian artists of his generation and 'one of Australia's best kept secrets' by art historian and curator Mary Eagle. Christmann rose to prominence with his inclusion in the landmark exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. From his hard edged colourfield paintings of the 1960s he went on to produce the "sprinkle" paintings of the 1970s. Throughout his different phases Christmann has maintained a fascination with the world around him, feeding off contemporary life, with his more recent works incorporating a ‘'tag" graffiti style that is drawn across his paintings, sometimes in almost obsessive repetition.Wikipedia