Drawing for lithograph 'Knife and postcard'

Kevin Lincoln began making still lifes in the mid 1970s, when he ‘...started to pay attention to the objects on the table before me – and in this way began making still-life paintings’ (Kevin Lincoln, 2015). Initially he pictured objects that had a personal meaning to him, although he grew increasingly drawn to exploring formal questions in subject, materials and composition.

This drawing is a study for a lithograph. It features an image of a postcard of the AGNSW’s Giorgio Morandi painting Still life 1957. An everyday object like a kitchen knife takes on a metaphorical resonance, its sharp blade a counterpoint to the postcard of a famous masterpiece of the still life genre, creating a tension in the image that extends to the beauty of objects but also the violent potential of the one it foregrounds.