when: 18 February 2023 - 26 March 2023 | venue: S.H. Ervin Gallery (National Trust Centre) | cost: Adult: $15 | Concession: $12 | Child: $0 | Member: $0 | address: Watson Road, The Rocks NSW 2000 | website: https://www.shervingallery.com.au
published: 15 Feb 2023, 5 min read
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This survey catches a great Australian painter at the height of his powers. Born in 1952, Idris Murphy developed deep roots in the history of painting as well as a profound feeling for the natural environment. Murphy's idiom transcends 'either/or' - it is indistinguishably landscape painting and painterly abstraction all at once. Arising from a sort of improvisatory incantation, the most vivid metaphors of land, space, light, mood and feeling seem to coalesce spontaneously and unbidden.
This happens even when Murphy's pictorial means strike us as most improbable and outlandish: recent paintings make abundant use of metallic pigments and wildly abstruse colour combinations. Despite their bizarrerie and casual-looking primitivism, each painting resolves brilliantly into its surface and shape, and exudes a rare poetry of 'place'.
Curated by Terence Maloon.
Toured by the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
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This survey catches a great Australian painter at the height of his powers. Born in 1952, Idris Murphy developed deep roots in the history of painting as well as a profound feeling for the natural environment. Murphy's idiom transcends 'either/or' - it is indistinguishably landscape painting and painterly abstraction all at once. Arising from a sort of improvisatory incantation, the most vivid metaphors of land, space, light, mood and feeling seem to coalesce spontaneously and unbidden.
This happens even when Murphy's pictorial means strike us as most improbable and outlandish: recent paintings make abundant use of metallic pigments and wildly abstruse colour combinations. Despite their bizarrerie and casual-looking primitivism, each painting resolves brilliantly into its surface and shape, and exudes a rare poetry of 'place'.
Curated by Terence Maloon.
Toured by the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
Go see Idris Murphy Backblocks 2023.
Idris Murphy Backblocks 2023 is on 18 February 2023 - 26 March 2023. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in The Rocks. Call 0292580173 for details. Visit their website at https://www.shervingallery.com.au.
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