Sam Fullbrook: Delicate Beauty
For the first time in nearly two decades the work of Archibald and Wynne Prize winner Sam Fullbrook will feature in a major showing at Queensland's own GOMA. The legendary artist, who passed away in 2004, created works of beauty through sweeping layers and tonal techniques.
Overview
For the first time in nearly two decades the work of Archibald and Wynne Prize winner Sam Fullbrook will feature in a major showing at Queensland’s own QAGOMA. The legendary artist, who passed away in 2004, created pieces that exposed the beauty sweeping layers and tonal techniques could draw from simplicity. Delicate Beauty is the fine testament to this work, talent and resistance to overt statements, in exchange for subtle observations.
All pieces are exhibited under three main themes – portraits, landscape and the racetrack. The portrait section features many recognisable pieces, including the honest portrayal of Brisbane writer and novelist Ernestine Hill, noted for its slash of red lipstick, and mirage like chromes. Other portraits include those of Fullbrook’s Sydney gallerist Rex, a pink-shirted Brisbane antique dealer and several jockeys, including his Archibald prize-winning red-and-white silked Norman (Whopper) Stephens.
Fullbrook was accustomed to choosing themes and subjects that epitomized and toned a certain colour he had in mind, and his landscape paintings tribute this eye for precision in shades, tints and pigments. From the lavender lashings of the Jacarandas in Ford on the Condamine, to the narrow, dulled yet alive greens of Mt Cooroy with Bunya Pines, the stylings of Fullbrook follow an appreciation for the basic elements of art, using the most complex of thinking and techniques.
Some 40 paintings are exhibited at Delicate Beauty, drawing from the Queensland Art Gallery’s own collection and supplemented by works from public institutions and private collections. Prepare to be shocked and amazed at how one artist drew moods and spirits hidden to the naked eye, with a palette of colours, and a paintbrush.
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