Vast : North-West Landscapes
Russell Drysdale, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Sidney Nolan @ Art Gallery of Western Australia



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Vast : North-West Landscapes

Event Name: Vast : North-West Landscapes
 
Artists: Russell Drysdale, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Sidney Nolan
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 to Sun, 18 Mar 2012
Venue:
Perth Cultural Centre 47 James St Mall
Perth, WA, 6000

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The opening up of northern Western Australia to mining exploration in the 1960s also opened up this terrain to artists – both literally by providing easier ways to access it physically by car and air, and imaginatively as a ‘new world’ to discover. Australian artists Russell Drysdale, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Sidney Nolan and many others travelled through the area at this time, and their practice often changed significantly as a result. It is timely to look at the effect of those earlier encounters with a hitherto unfamiliar landscape on the art of non-Indigenous Australian artists, as this region is again in the public eye due to the current mining boom in Western Australia. Vast: North-West landscapes focuses on key works in the State Art Collection which explore the aesthetic outcomes of the challenge to understand the topography of, and experience of being in, a previously alien place.
Event Type: Arts and Exhibition
Genres: Art Exhibition

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