Portrait Of An Artist
Portrait of an Artist takes as its starting point Michel Lawrence鈥檚 photographic series Framed, for which he documented Australian artists in their studios over a ten-year period during the 1980s and 90s, and recently expanded with three new images commissioned specifically for the exhibition. The portraits, many of which are held in the Heide Collection, offer not only a compelling visual record of the individual artists, but also a rare glimpse into their private creative spaces and processes. The photographs are contextualised in the exhibition by artworks of each practitioner, along with examples of their palettes, paints, and other tools of trade. The presence of the studio materials makes the invisible visible, tracing a literal connection between the artist鈥檚 hand and the outcomes of their work, inviting viewers to contemplate the act of creation and explore each object鈥檚 associations.
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Portrait of an Artist takes as its starting point Michel Lawrence鈥檚 photographic series Framed, for which he documented Australian artists in their studios over a ten-year period during the 1980s and 90s, and recently expanded with three new images commissioned specifically for the exhibition. The portraits, many of which are held in the Heide Collection, offer not only a compelling visual record of the individual artists, but also a rare glimpse into their private creative spaces and processes. The photographs are contextualised in the exhibition by artworks of each practitioner, along with examples of their palettes, paints, and other tools of trade. The presence of the studio materials makes the invisible visible, tracing a literal connection between the artist鈥檚 hand and the outcomes of their work, inviting viewers to contemplate the act of creation and explore each object鈥檚 associations.
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