George Gittoes 'The Yellow Bath' still lifeGeorge Gittoes, an Australian artist, filmmaker and political activist, has led an extraordinary life. In 1970, he helped establish the Yellow House Artist Collective, a bohemian institution in Sydney inspired by Vincent van Goghs artist commune and the British Arts Lab movement of the late 1960s. After departing the commune, Gittoes settled in Bundeena using it as a base for his travels to regions including Rwanda, Afghanistan and Cambodia, where he
‘Paradise Garden’ is a spellbinding image
a sentiment imbued with filmic nostalgia
including at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
and 2012 was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia
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– I think human weakness through the vulnerable figure without extracting its dignity no matter how uncertain… this is why distortion and the element of drama [are] ever present” – George Baldessin Baldessin has been honoured with retrospective exhibitions at Heide Museum
Robyn Gibson’s work explores the unplanned patterns that occur when humans interact with the landscape
The organic yet abstracted
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the creature emanates a sense of beauty that is inconsistent with what we know to expect of the natural world
bringing together creatives working in wood engraving
He reflects that “Flowers play a significant part in every human rite of passage”
