Ballerat (Vic): Michael Shannon: Australian Romantic Realist
A retrospective exhibition by the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Ballarat VIC 3350
Email: artgal@ballarat.vic.gov.au
Appointment Email: artgal@ballarat.vic.gov.au
Website: www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au
Michael Shannon, one of Australia’s most under-regarded major artists, is being celebrated in a retrospective exhibition by the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Shannon was one of the first artists in the post war period to explore the urban landscape, particularly concentrating on the suburban sprawl. Shannon was a bold Romantic Realist whose work deserves public recognition.
Michael Shannon literally drew his way into the places he inhabited: his domestic terrain, suburbia, the city - wherever that might be - and, particularly in later years, the landscape.
Patrick McCaughey, whose essay about Shannon features in the exhibition catalogue, writes: “Michael Shannon was both a substantive contributor to the enterprise of modern Australian art and its beneficiary”.
“Few amongst his contemporaries encompassed ‘city and country’ so successfully. Looking back now almost twenty years after his death, the bigger rhythm of his work emerges: the const the city and the release of the spirit in the rocky wilds and the sun-bleached hills of Heathcote. What Australian does not live out that fundamental rhythm between the constraints of the city and the comforts of the suburbs and the pleasure of escaping both in the bush?”
Shannon's distinctive paintings were as avidly collected and frequently displayed as those of his near contemporaries John Brack and Fred Williams.
WHEN: December 10th 2011 to February 12th 2012
WHERE:Art Gallery of Ballerat, 40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat
COST: Free
BOOKINGS: None required
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