EXHIBITION DETAILS
- Title: Out of the Blue
- Artists: Robyn P Clarke and Paul du Moulin
- Commencing: Wednesday, 8 July, 2009
- Finishing: Sunday 19 July, 2009
- Opening Event: Saturday 11 July, 2009, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
THE ARTISTS
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Paul du Moulin |
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Robyn P Clarke’s formal art education was at the East Sydney Technical College (National Art School) and she graduated in art from Alexander Mackie College (COFA). She later added to this a Masters in Printmaking from the National Art School.
She has had numerous exhibitions in Melbourne, including at the Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Roar Studios and Distelfink Gallery. In Sydney she has shown at the Holdsworth Gallery, Barry Stern, and with the Harris Courtin Gallery, all in the Paddington/Wollahra area.
She has been Craft Critic for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, and was wrote on craft for the revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Art. She appears in the Dictionary of Australian Women Artists (editor Max Germaine). She has taught art (secondary and tertiary) in Melbourne, Sydney and London.
Since she came to the Blue Mountains in 2003 she has shown with the Hat Hill Gallery in Blackheath, has been a guest exhibitor at the Gallery Blackheath, and has been part of a three-woman exhibition at the Blackheath Art Society Gallery. She has won Second Prize at a recent Blackheath Art Society exhibition.
Her work is part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Geelong Art Gallery, and she is represented in many private collections in New South Wales and Victoria.
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Paul du Moulin's art has been described as "incredibly varied, from subtle landscapes, fine etchings, haunting portraits; to surreal urbanscapes". Much of Paul's work can be viewed as a series of cultural artifacts, created as a result of a particular sensitivity to the subtle shifts constantly occurring in both the natural and man-made world. With training and a background in drawing, water colouring, oil painting, sculpture, new media and printmaking it is not only his subject matter, style and technique which varies, but also the medium in which he works.
Last year Paul went to Beijing China for an artists residency and the year before that to the Czech Republic - Cesky Krumlov. This year he is studying for an MFA - Master of Fine art by Research at COFA UNSW, where he is looking at the visual language of networks by exploring cultural identity. He will use the research gathered in Beijing last year, which includes documents from the cultural revolution. He will break these ideas down into a network and then translate them into a visual language using drawing and painting. All the while using his Australian notion of identity. Next year he will go to France, where he will research his ancestral connections using his french name as the catalyst for further research. The work he is currently preparing for this show relates to the work from Cesky Krumlov and his explorations into depicting the Australian landscape.
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> See exhibition opening photos
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'Piers 2' by Robyn Clarke
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