Arnold Shore, Pioneer Modernist
5 September - 25 October 2009
This exhibition of paintings by distinguished painter, teacher and art critic Arnold Shore coincides with the launch of the first major published monograph on the artist by Dr Rob Haysom, Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts at Deakin University.
The Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum has had a long association, with the artist and his family. The Gallery has built up a small but significant body of the artist's works from all periods of his career, at a time when many public galleries were pursuing more fashionable or politically correct artists for their permanent collections. The publication and exhibition acknowledge that Arnold Shore was a great lyrical painter and a leader of the early modernist movement in Australian art.
The exhibition includes works on loan from the National Gallery of Victoria and private collections.
Bush (Mount Macedon)
1946
The Circus
1929
Bella Donna
1931
Louis Kahan (1905-2002)
Drawings of Australian Artists
5 September - 25 October 2009
Donation of Lily Kahan 2008
Kahan was born in Vienna and worked in Paris from 1925. After service in World War 2 as a war artist he arrived in Australia in 1947. He became an established portraitist and stage designer as well as a painter and stained glass designer. His portrait drawings were widely published. He had many exhibitions and is represented in Australian and overseas collections.
Louis Kahan
Self Portrait
1965
Barry Singleton - Recent Ceramics
5 September - 25 October 2009
As part of the 40th Anniversary of Victorian Ceramics Inc., the Gallery is featuring an exhibition of recent work by established local potter Barry Singleton. It is a further development of an exhibition of his work earlier this year at Skepsi on Swanston. The exhibition is complemented by the Gallery's excellent collection of Australian ceramics.
