Expressive potential: studies in abstraction

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Bendigo Art Gallery (42 View Street, Bendigo, VIC, Australia) | Bendigo

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Expressive potential: studies in abstraction
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Bendigo Art Gallery Collection
Abstraction is an approach to making art that favours expressive and symbolic gestures over realistic representation. Not concerned with illustrating exactly what they see, artists working in this expansive genre often seek to capture an essence of something or convey emotion.
From hard-edge to lyrical abstraction, this display from the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection spans almost a century of abstract approaches in Australian art, including works from the 1930s to the present day. Featured artists draw inspiration from everyday scenes and encounters, music and nature, spirituality and family, geometry and illusion, material exploration, and the process of artmaking itself. Together they highlight the ongoing relevance and expressive potential of abstraction in contemporary art.
Featured artists include John Aslandis, Mitty Brown, Ian Fairweather, Denise Green, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Alun Leach-Jones and Richard Larter with recent acquisitions by Kirsty Budge, Helen Maudsley, Kate Tucker and Jenny Watson.
This Collection display can be found in our oldest gallery space Bolton Court built in 1867. In the late 1880s, under the supervision of the distinguished Bendigo architect WC Vahland this building was converted from the orderly room of the Bendigo Volunteer Rifle Brigade to a permanent home for the Gallery’s collection.
Free entry.
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Mitty Brown, 'Good Morning' c.1963, oil on canvas. Bendigo Art Gallery Collection, purchased 1964
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