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Cubism and Australian Art
See over 200 works by more than 80 artists that span from the 1920s to the present in this major exhibition Cubism and Australian Art. Exclusive to Heide, this exhibition explores the influence of Cubism on Australian art and its ongoing relevance to artists today.
Originating in France, Cubism fundamentally changed the course of twentieth-century art through its stylistic and conceptual innovations. Charting the changing character of Cubism’s influence over successive decades, the exhibition begins with its impact on Australian modernists including Melbourne artists Moya Dyring, Sam Atyeo, Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan; artists associated with the Crowley-Fizelle School in Sydney; and those who participated in the Cubist movement abroad including James Cant, Anne Dangar and John Power.
Developments post World War II are also explored when Cubism's influence became more diffuse but remained significant, particularly for artists working with abstraction including Roger Kemp, James Meldrum, George Johnson, Robert Klippel, Ron Robertson-Swann and William Rose and others like Godfrey Miller and Fred Williams who continued to work with figurative and landscape motifs.
In the 1980s–2000s, contemporary artists variously adapt, develop, quote and critique aspects of Cubist practice. View the paintings of Robert Rooney, Dale Hickey, Stephen Bram, Melinda Harper and Juan Davila; the collage and assemblage works of Madonna Staunton and Rosalie Gascoigne, Elizabeth Gower and Masato Takasaka; the sculptures of James Angus, Jacky Redgate and Gemma Smith and the moving-image installations of John Dunkley-Smith and Daniel Crooks.
Don't miss this opportunity to see significant examples of international and Australian Cubism as well as works by contemporary Australian artists.
7 Templestowe Rd
Bulleen, Victoria 3105
Australia
