Selected drawings and graphic work from the gallery’s permanent collection.
The material qualities of paper – its relative affordability, its flexibility and portability – offer many artists an intimate space through which the transmission of an impulse, a feeling, perception or concept can occur with a freedom not easily offered by other media. This exhibition, the third in a series of ongoing collection-themed projects, comprises works on paper from the gallery’s collection, including a recently acquired suite of print works by Graham Kuo, and also a selection of works from the Shirley Firkin Collection.
Well-known local identity Dr Caleb Firkin and his late wife, Shirley shared a great love of art and assembled an eclectic private collection of around 160 artworks throughout their married life. Dr Firkin has worked with the gallery in recent years to share this collection with the community.
Image above: Brett Whiteley, Palm tree 2, 1975. [edition 50] screenprint on paper, 81.5 x 60 cm
Image below: Alan Oldfield, Out of the window III (Grey Day) 1976. Synthetic polymer paint on paper, 26 x 18.8cm
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