John Kelly: Sunshine and Moonlight Accompanied by a selection of works on paper from 1962 of Moon Boy by Sidney Nolan Exhibition also includes three major photographs of John Kelly and Sidney Nolan by Michel Lawrence
Curated by Damian Smith
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Dr Damian Smith, exhibition curator
on canvas is concerned.
precision and a clear facility where paint
painterly surfaces that are crafted with the utmost
Closer examination of the compositions will reveal
while advancing also Kelly’s own contemporary vision.
ambitions of a past generation of Australian artists
slight of hand. The layered image recalls the surrealist
minimalist abstraction while also delivering a complex
for they hinge on the challenge of affecting a mode of
for an artist who is predominantly a landscape painter,
‘Boy and the moon’ 1939-1940 are exceptional images
John Kelly’s painterly translations of Sidney Nolan’s
Front: John Kelly Self portrait as a parasite 2006 oil on canvas 162 x 196 cm Left: Sidney Nolan Boy and the moon (study for Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring) 1962 gold spray paint and acrylic on card 26 x 24 cm
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John Kelly: Sunshine and Moonlight
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