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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Braidwood
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 2011
- Media categories
- Drawing , Watercolour
- Materials used
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 75.0 cm each sheet; 55.0 x 750.0 cm overall
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by an anonymous donor 2023
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 149.2023.a-j
- Copyright
- © John R Walker
- Artist information
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John R Walker
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About
John R Walker is attracted to boundaries and borders that mark and define the landscape – points of transition that include natural divides like gullies and creeks, and constructed ones such as roads and fence lines. Described as an ‘episodic artist’, he prefers formats that allow the ‘unfolding’ of an idea, or of seeing over time from multiples angles and distances. Traces of human occupation of the land and far older transformative processes of geology and nature are central to his work.
Little River Road, Thursday morning 2011 is a ten-part drawing of a favourite route Walker takes for bike rides near his home in Braidwood, NSW. This drawing shows the landscape as he experienced it on one of these rides – in short glimpses, the unifying motifs being the horizon and the road, coalescing and dividing the terrain as it changed along the bike route.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Drawing out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Nov 2014–26 Jan 2015
Drawing out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Nov 2014–26 Jan 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Anne Ryan, Drawing out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014, Sydney, 2014, 67-68, 69 (colour illus.).
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