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Recent Exhibitions
Introduction | Iconic Shapes | The Inks | Drawings Revisited | Collaborations
Max Gimblett: The language of drawing (17 May – 28 July 2002)
Collaborations
 Max Gimblett Gimblett/Yau collaboration no.1 1997-98 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery. Reproduced with permission. |
`Can words and pictures meet and make something fresh?
The New York poet John Yau poses this question when writing (for the catalogue to this exhibition) on his collaboration with Max Gimblett. Their creative partnership commenced in 1994, and since then they have made several ‘one-of-a-kind' books, produced more than a hundred works on paper and have around eight book projects in various states of completion.
Yau states that ‘something unexpected always happens when we work together', a situation partly dictated by the choice they make of paper, the size of the brushes used and whether the medium is acrylic, or ink (or both). To this may be added collaged fragments of illustrations or suchlike. For both visual artist and writer, the collaboration process allows for a spontaneous exchange between one sensibility and another, between image and text, and has prompted playfulness and humour. The same is true of Gimblett's collaborations with the poet Robert Creeley.
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