{"id":2972,"date":"2014-12-02T06:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moirakirkwood.com\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2020-08-28T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T02:24:29","slug":"drawing-as-a-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moirakirkwood.com\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"Drawing as a life-long practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

We visited AGNSW<\/a> this week to check out the new-look Dobell Drawing Biennial. \u00a0Up until a couple of years back, the Dobell has been a Drawing Prize, with submissions from all and sundry. \u00a0The final show \u00a0was a selection of high quality works which made up a varied, interesting show. (Find out more about the history of the Dobell Prize here.<\/a>) As Sydney artist Jane Bennett has pointed out, it also gave a wide spectrum of artists the opportunity to be recognised in this major Australian venue. It was always a favourite of mine, and I never felt it was promoted as effectively as it could have been.<\/p>\n

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Ivy Pareroultja, James Range,<\/strong><\/em> 2010, watercolour on paper on board, 26 x 36cm.<\/p>\n

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However all that’s history, and now AGNSW presents a biennial event with a showcase of 10 established artists chosen by a Guest Curator. This year that person was Anne Ryan, \u00a0currently Curator Australian prints, drawings and watercolours at the Gallery. All this year’s chosen artists are well established Australians, some familiar to me and some not: \u00a0Tom Carment; \u00a0Joe Furlonger; \u00a0Ross Laurie; \u00a0Ivy Pareroultja (an example of her work above): \u00a0Ana Pollak; \u00a0Peter Sharp; \u00a0Mary Tonkin; \u00a0John R Walker; \u00a0Gosia Wlodarczak; \u00a0and John Wolseley.<\/p>\n

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Wlodarczak’s work was unfolding before us as she drew on the glass walls of the Gallery. Her work is always very busy; an intense linear exploration, here responding in an intuitive way to what she was seeing through the glass. It is more than simply this though. She works at being in the moment<\/em>\u00a0 and responding to all that her senses may bring to her. She says:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I try to look at the reality in a non-hierarchical way, and to grasp an impression registered by my eye before my brain applies to it filters of our social and cultural knowledge. (http:\/\/www.gosiawlodarczak.com\/Pages\/Statement.html)<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s fascinating and immersive, as though we are getting an intimate view of her mind.<\/p>\n

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Gosia Wlodarczak working on her installation during the opening week of the show,\u00a0in situ<\/em>\u00a0 on one of the Gallery glass walls.<\/p>\n

John Wolseley<\/a>\u00a0too, has a mystical kind of approach to his work. He sees himself as a ‘hybrid mix of artist and scientist.’ He has a deep love of the Australian flora and fauna and seeks to collaborate in some way with the world when he describes it. This often involves an abrogation of control, directly rubbing \u00a0his paper supports against trees and plants, using the random marks that result.<\/p>\n

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John Wolseley (U.K. b.1938)A Clarence Galaxia in the Ancient Spagnum Bogs, Skullbone Plains, Tasmania,<\/strong><\/em> 2013 \u00a0\u00a0(detail), watercolor, graphite on paper, 140 \u00d7 300 cm.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Ivy Pareroultja’s<\/a> work is very reminiscent of Albert Namatjira, and this is unsurprising given that she was born in Hermannsburg in the Central Desert area of the Northern Territory, and is a descendant of the Hermannsburg Watercolour Movement painters. \u00a0This group sprang out of Namatjira’s work. (More on Albert Namatjira here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The champion for me though was always going \u00a0to be Tom Carment. I love how he just keeps on keeping on with his practice – a daily plein air<\/em> exploration with a deft, wiggly kind of hand. \u00a0His works are so understated but beautifully seen.<\/p>\n

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Tom Carment, Coledale Beach Caravan Park,<\/em> 2014<\/p>\n

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