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State of Abstraction
Helen Smith May 2014 Alighiero e Boetti from Wikipedia, United Nations 2014. Oil on canvas, 150 x 210 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through the Sir Claude Hotchin Art Foundation, The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2014. © Helen Smith, 2014.
State of Abstraction
State of Abstraction brings together abstract works by some of Western Australia’s most historically important artists alongside newcomers and lesser-known makers.
Spanning the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, the exhibition examines the ways (and reasons) these artists have been so committed to staging profoundly heightened encounters with the complex intersections between materiality, meaning, perception, place, time, history and identity.
Drawn from the State Art Collection, works include those of Mark Grey-Smith, Jurek Wybraniec, Robert Juniper, Brian Blanchflower, Meeyakba Shane Pickett, Alex Spremberg, Miriam Stannage, Rebecca Baumann, Helen Smith, Michele Theunissen amongst many others.
The exhibition forms part of Re/Collections, a series of exhibitions presenting new ways of seeing, sharing, and showcasing works in the State Art Collection.
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Cathy Blanchflower Atlas IV 1997. Oil on cotton canvas,1700 x 1600 mm MK. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1998.
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Diane Dawson Katu-nguru walunyanganyi 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 76 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: COVID-19 Arts Stimulus Package, 2020.
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Trevor Vickers Untitled 1969. Synthetic polymer paint on five canvases, 242.3 x 243 cm (overall). The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1988.
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Iris Francis Abstract c1950s. Synthetic polymer paint on board, 92.1 x 72.8 cm (framed). The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Gift of Sue and Ian Bernadt, 1994.
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Jeremy Kirwan-Ward Somewhere a sky like Perelandra 1971. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 59.2 x 180 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1971.
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Michele Theunissen The edge 2015-2019. Acrylic, dry pigments, artists' inks, oils, encaustic wax (beeswax) on canvas, 213 x 152 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2021.
The life of art begins in the bodies and minds of artists, their act of making bringing the work into being. In some ways we, the audience, also play a role in actualising their creative objective by engaging with their work. What this might stir in us as participants is gently guided by the work, in concert with our lived experience we bring to this moment.
AGWA Associate Curator Australian & Western Australian Art Post 1970
