David Aspden
(Australia 01 May 1935–26 Jun 2005)
- Title
- Dreamtime
- Year
- 1976
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in cream and brown ink from two blocks on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 9/10 (b)
- Dimensions
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94.2 x 67.8cm blockmark; 120.0 x 80.2cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Aspden 76".
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 353.1977
- Copyright
- © Karen Aspden
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This is the most ambitious of Aspden’s forays into printmaking, which he practised mainly in the 1970s. Its raw quality, in both the jagged cutting of the block and the rough wood grain of the block’s surface, suggests the appeal these materials had for the artist, as well as his skill in counterpointing positive and negative space and suspending forms within a composition.
- Bibliography (2)
-
St John's Cathedral, Brisbane (Australia) (Author), David Aspden, Brisbane, 1971. cat.no. 21; Not the Gallery's impression; ed. 7/10
Anne Ryan (Australia) (Curator), Helen Campbell (Australia) (Assistant Curator), David Aspden: the colour of music and place, Sydney, 2011, 9, 28 (colour illus.), 81, 89.
