Title
Study for 'Lapsed shadows re-cycled to a capable coast'
1988
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1988
- Media categories
- Drawing , Collage
- Materials used
- charcoal, photocopy collage on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 51.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., black ink "Gleeson 21.3.88".
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1991
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 131.1991
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
Works in the collection
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About
'[It was] done with the idea of the Sunshine Coast, where I used to spend the summer holidays ... I wanted to show how threatening forms can be really quite beautiful ... It's one of those paintings that I did when I was very interested in negative shapes in black and contrasting them with positive, three-dimensional shapes, forms, organic forms ... a feature of a number of works', James Gleeson 17 August 2002.
This drawing is typical of late drawings in which Gleeson uses collage more frequently. He generally begins drawing in charcoal, adding collage subsequently, which he selects from a large collection of random organic and mechanical forms, photocopied or cut from various sources. The identity of the elements he selects is irrelevant to his purpose; they are chosen for their shape and texture alone.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 91.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
James Gleeson centenary: works from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 2015–27 Jan 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Pamela Bell, Imprint, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', pg. 4-5, Melbourne, Winter 2003, 4 (illus.), 5. Review of exhibition held at the AGNSW.
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 90 (colour illus.), 91. cat.no. 38
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