2023

I rode my 2023 year by returning to reflect on the beginning of my interdisciplinary journey of more than 50 years. As my very first paintings flash back like ghosts of past players they illustrate the awakening of a creative journey across ‘Compositional Form’.

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My art career has always been generated by insights and the germination of creative impulses. Inherently my creative direction was inspired by art movements across the Art World.

I date my incidental awareness of ‘Compositional Form’ back to when I first heard Jazz as a four year old and recognised that patterns of sound stimulated my awareness of patterns explored visually in nature and in the world around me. Across my early career my painting was viewed for its modernist potential to associate as a flat field always on the verge of recognition of three dimensional space.

My historic response to a view through the Kitchen window was introduced as Modernist, as was my 1960’s Self Portrait.

A later painting of the mundane stacked ‘dirty dishes’ transformed

As a teenager my awareness of ‘Modernist Form’ had been inspired by the powerful impact of ‘Modernist Architecture’ an exciting development in 1950’s Brisbane which later became a lived experience, when our first house was designed by our brother-in-law, then a newly graduated Architect’

In early 2023 I added to my library the newly published ‘UnAustralian Art’; Butler & Donaldson and ‘Ends of Painting Art in the 1960s and 1970s’; Power Publications.

And I quote from the epilogue of UnAustralian Art:

“if there is a new history of world art to be written, as we have tried to point out in our ‘UnAustralian’ art history, it would be a matter of starting in one place and seeing how the rest of the world is inseparable from it”

During 2023 I continued to view contemporary art exhibitions and have selected just a few of the many Opening Events across the 2023 year.