Graham Austin OAM
261A Mt Scanzi Road Kangaroo Valley NSW 2577 Australia T: +612 4465 1494
www.galeriaaniela.com.au
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Graham Austin OAM has won over 34 major art awards, his work is influenced from his time in the air; the effects of aerial landscape and the sense of spirit that emanates from it. Main themes are abstracted creation of topography where water and wind carve the design, sculpting the moving surface. He likes rocks and trees becoming spotted texture, standing alone or gathering in groups just like people, intermingling in life and becoming tide of movement, an aerial patterns. |
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Artist:
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Born Sydney, Australia,
1941.
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Graham Austin Acrylics Austin painting style in acrylics has a resemblance and parallel to pointillism. It is often interpreted as a bridging of aboriginal and western art. His spotted patterns of complimentary colours dance adjacently, creating a kinetic abstraction when viewed close up. From a distance the cacophony of spots fuse into statements of Australian landscape, giving his work its inspired individuality. His acrylics offer textured movement of size-varied marks melting into topographical form. Some may offhandedly presume Graham is imitating the pointillists of French impressionism. Whilst some of his work may appear relative, it has never been his intention. His spotted marks are derived from the Australian landscape, particularly the Kimberley region in the northwest. Usually, his spotted textures are the indication of his style difference and bear a strong sense of the landscape spirit. Similarly, aboriginal art is often constructed with a form of pointillism generated on design format. Graham acknowledges their interpretation and salutes a connection in his own work whilst generating an individual style extracted from the landscape patterns, rhythms and textures observed from an aerial perspective. The liberal sprinkling of trees, rocks and shrubs across the outback, intermingled with river courses, mountain forms and shadows demand an acute awareness of spotted textures. His process and stages of development when creating an artwork are mostly cerebral, working directly from his brain straight to the painting surface. He rarely does preliminary sketches. He likes to visualize the subject in his mind and then paint direct. This approach gives flexibility and was developed from the fluidity involved when working in watercolor. Interpreting his work in a shallow scientific sense, some may feel he delivers an expansive view, segregated into o a collective of atoms, objectively creating that visual fusion, blending colors and spotted shapes to interpret the landscape. The repetitive watery spots on dots generate a visual texture. An optical illusion of subject evolves when the picture surface shuffles itself into an orchestrated fusion of logic and order, just as nature with the infinite multitude of atom.Graham Austin Watercolors Austin watercolors also emphasize the drama of the Australian landscape, giving the dexterous impression of having fallen off the brush onto the painting surface with washes of workmanlike elegance and incorporating his tradition of spotted textures. Graham’s watercolors may show a forest of green spots, shadow linked, flowing like a current over a fringe of red ochre. The existence of borrowed colors, intermixed and settled into the local colour helps the production of his visual poetry. His watercolors adopt some of the attributes of his acrylics. He thoroughly rejoices in the luminosity of colour washes, encouraging the glowing effect from white paper instead of using white pigment. Graham Austin Oils Graham Austin oil paintings vary from an abstraction to traditional aspect and at times, working over an under painting of spotted acrylic. The decided approach is determined by the subject; however his attitude of colour, vibrating against colour remains an underlying element. He incorporates spots into his oils to work colour against colour, he also blends paint to add subtleties. Graham Austin was born Sydney 1941 and at a very early age he became interested in art and coveted becoming an artist. The first report goes back to when he was in a cot, crying. His grandfather told the story of how he said to his mother, ‘Give him a pencil and paper that always shuts them up’. Austin work is influenced from his time in the air; the effects of aerial landscape and the sense of spirit that emanates from it. The main themes are abstracted creation of topography where water and wind carve the design, sculpting the moving surface. Austin likes rocks and trees to become spotted texture, standing alone or gathering in groups just like people, intermingling in life and becoming a tide of movement, a current of aerial patterns. Graham Austin has won over 34 major art awards plus numerous commendations for oils, watercolors and acrylics. He has enjoyed 14 years as President of the Australian Watercolor Institute. Dr Brian Kennedy, Director of the National Gallery, Canberra wrote of the AWI, “It has promoted and exhibited the best watercolor painting in Australia”. Graham has held several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. He has exhibited in USA, UK, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Spain, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia. He is represented in regional galleries, corporate and private collections in Australia, UK, Hong Kong, Mexico and USA. He is also invited to judge many art prizes. |
