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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)
Drawings Revisited
 Max Gimblett Tantric suite 31 – with Burgoine Diller in mind 1977/1978/1991 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery. Reproduced with permission. |
`In the development of Max Gimblett's drawing oeuvre he has, on occasions, returned to earlier works and added elements to them. He also does this with the visual journals he has kept since the 1960s - he goes back and re-works pages to bring fresh insights into his imagery. Hence some of the drawings on display have two or three dates inscribed on them. The most obvious ‘additions' can be seen in the calligraphic drawings, where a free gesture is matched by another in a separate colour, and also with the ‘collaborationsą that he has produced with New York poet John Yau.
In addition, Max Gimblett often works in series, rephrasing an iconic shape, for example, or giving it a different emphasis in terms of colour and metallic hue. Sometimes the shape has a quiet meditative quality; at other times it is expressionistically charged. The artist also selects a range of paper stock for his drawings, which imparts to them light-emitting qualities, differences in weight, and sometimes a distinctive deckle edge.
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