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Details
- Date
- (1984)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 156.5 x 115.0 cm stretcher; 160.2 x 118.6 x 6.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the H.G. Slater Foundation 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 102.1984
- Copyright
- © Karen Aspden
- Artist information
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David Aspden
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About
At the time this work was made, Aspden was living in Balmain, from which the title Mort Bay is taken. A visit to northern India in 1982 brought a new freedom of approach to his work, resulting in strongly gestural paintings of free-form shapes in exuberant colours. Black (which Aspden regarded as a colour) and cream were introduced as a new counterpoint – connected in part to the fire-blackened trees of Arnhem Land and the burning ghats he had witnessed in India.
At around this time Aspden began using as his monogram a small triangle, derived from the characteristic roof-front shape of the Haus Tambaran – a type of traditional ancestral worship house that he encountered in Papua New Guinea in 1981.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Anne Ryan, David Aspden: the colour of music and place, 'David Aspden: the colour of music and place', pg. 6-11, Sydney, 2011, 9, 59 (colour illus.), 83, 88. pg. 9 reference refers to Balmain, which is where Mort Bay is located.
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