Artwork of the Day - Proud - The Suitors

Geoffrey Proud (b. 1946)
The Suitors 2007
oil on canvas
44x 43cm
no.9855

Often quirky and verging on the surreal, Geoffrey Proud's paintings in oil and pastel are like fractured fairytales. Depicting a world of innocence with a sometimes ominous edge, Proud's paintings are fantastic and bizarre. His choice of subjects is broad, including children and childhood narratives, flowers, still lifes and nudes. Alternating between expressionist impastoed brushwork and sensitive detail, he experiments freely with vibrant colour and varying textures. The highly glazed surfaces of his recent oils give his scenes an ethereal and otherworldly quality. Proud has won numerous awards including the Sulman Prize in 1976 for a painting on perspex, and the Archibald prize in 1990 for his portrait of writer Dorothy Hewett. He has exhibited consistently in all state capitals since 1966 and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; many State and regional gallery collections; Parliament House collections in Canberra and Sydney; Artbank; IBM collection; and the Elton John collection, London

Collection: Birds

Artists include: Brett Whiteley, Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, Song Ling, Stephen Nothling, Tomasz Talaj, and Marika Borlase

Artwork of the Day - Whiteley - Magpie

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)
Magpie 1977
Sugarlift aquatint 20/60
50.5 x 50cm (plate size)
75 x 52.5cm (sheet size)
Signed 'Brett Whiteley' lower right
Edition number lower left
Edition of 60; 8-10 APs
Printed by Max Miller, Sydney
Publisher: Port Jackson Press, Sydney
no.7812

Birds are among the most important of all Whiteley's subjects.

Barry Pearce Pearce has described Whiteley as “Australia’s most sublime painter of birds, “as essential symbols of the song of creation and the joy of life.” Reference: Barry Pearce (1989), Australian Artists, Australian Birds, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, p.144.

Brett Whiteley is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries, as well as many important public collections both in Australia and overseas.

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The artists depicted include, Albert Henry Fullwood, Garry Shead, Tim Storrier, Roland Wakelin, Elisabeth Kruger, Sidney Nolan, John Coburn, and Vince Vozzo.