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ROBERT
MACPHERSON
THE PAINTER’S REACH
25 JULY – 18 OCTOBER 2015
GOMA
CURATOR / INGRID PERIZ
Long-established Australian artist Robert MacPherson’s self-taught
style and varied life experiences were reflected in this wide-reaching
survey. The exhibition included painting, installation and ephemeral
works, through which the artist explores minimalism, abstraction,
humour, conceptualism and the everyday.
For the first time ever, MacPherson’s
1000 FROG POEMS: 1000
BOSS DROVERS (“YELLOW LEAF FALLING”) FOR H.S.
1996–2014,
which consists of 2400 hand-drawn, imagined portraits of Australia’s
pastoral stock route drovers, was installed in its entirety.
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT /
A school group inspects MacPherson’s
1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS
DROVERS (“YELLOW LEAF FALLING”)
FOR H.S.
1996–2014 / Purchased 2014
with funds from the Queensland
Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Foundation, Paul and Susan Taylor, and
Donald and Christine McDonald / July
2015 / Photograph: Mark Sherwood
‘Robert MacPherson: Swags and
Swamp Rats’ in the Children’s Art
Centre / July 2015 / Photograph:
Mark Sherwood
Visitors to ‘The Painter’s Reach’ /
September 2015 / Photograph:
Chloë Callistemon
Exhibition publication /
Photograph: Mark Sherwood
CHILDREN’S
ART CENTRE
THE ACTIVITIES IN
‘SWAGS AND SWAMP
RATS’ INTRODUCED
KIDS TO THE
COLOURFUL LIFE
AND LINGO OF
THE AUSTRALIAN
DROVERS.
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