Abstract
At a small but intensely stimulating symposium hosted by the University of Melbourne in November last year, a variety of curators, scholars and writers met to share experiences, insights and ambitions relating to exhibitions of Australian colonial art. Coffee breaks and plenary sessions were particularly interesting in articulating outstanding desiderata for monographic shows: Mary Morton Allport, Thomas Baines, Ludwig Becker, Louis Buvelot, J. H. Carse, Augustus Earle, S. T. Gill, Thomas Wainewright . Nobody mentioned Thomas Clark, because everyone at the conference knew that Danny McOwan was already working on that one. Had been for quite some time, in fact. Well, that long-anticipated exhibition has finally made it onto the newly and smartly plastered, sky-blue painted walls of the Hamilton Gallery. And it is a revelation. As painstakingly excavated by researcher and curator Dr Peter Dowling, Clarks oeuvre totals thirty-five located and certainly attributed oil paintings; a full thirty-one of them are in Exposing Thomas Clark, allowing the full range of his achievement (in this medium, at least) to be explored.
Original language | English |
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No. | 22 October 2013 |
Specialist publication | Melbourne Art Network |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |