Ivan Dougherty Gallery | The College of Fine Arts
Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Colour in Art - Revisiting 1919
| When: | Aug 22, 2008 - Sep 27, 2008 |
| Artist(s): | Roy de Maistre and Roland Wakelin |
| Curated by: | Annabel Pegus and Nick Waterlow |
| Additional Information: | Opening: Friday 22 August 2008, 6-8pm. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Ann Lewis AM, Hon, DFA (Syd) - Symposium: Saturday 23 August, 10.30am-4pm - Keynote Address 11-12am: Dr Daniel Thomas AM - Sesson One 12-1pm: Colour in Art - Revisiting 1919 Panel: Dr Heather Johnson (author), Dr Deborah Hart (Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia), Christopher Dean (artist, curator and lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts), Niels Hutchison (artist and writer), Dr Jenny McFarlane (curator and writer), Chair: Nick Waterlow and Annabel Pegus (Director and Curator, Ivan Dougherty Gallery) |
In late 1918 Roy de Maistre and Roland Wakelin collaborated to produce Australia’s first abstract
paintings based on de Maistre’s colour-music theory: a means of colour harmonisation based on a
correlation between the colours of the spectrum and notes of the musical scale. De Maistre created
colour keyboards, scales, wheels and studies, which were then used to produce small paintings and
later fully developed abstract works. The results culminated in the innovative but highly
criticised exhibition Colour in Art at Gayfield Shaw’s Art Salon, Sydney in 1919. Colour in Art –
Revisiting 1919 will exhibit de Maistre and Wakelin’s colour-music paintings and studies from 1918
to the mid 1930s; re-introducing two significant and influential Modernist Australian artists. This
is the first exhibition solely devoted to de Maistre’s colour-music theory and to incorporate both
artists’ work.
A fully illustrated catalogue will be published and the exhibition will tour to Heide Museum
of Modern Art and the State Library of Queensland in 2009.
This exhibition is part of Sydney Design Week 08
Special thank you to the Gordon Darling Foundation
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