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Details
- Date
- 1995
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 150.0 x 244.0 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l. corner verso, red fibre-tipped pen "DAVID ASPDEN/ .../ 1995".
- Credit
- D G Wilson Bequest Fund 2004
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 203.2004
- Copyright
- © Karen Aspden
- Artist information
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David Aspden
Works in the collection
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About
Late in his career Aspden reasserted the centrality of colour and music to his work, describing the synaesthetic relationship between them as the core of his practice. He referred to colour in musical terms – harmony, variation and discord – and associated it with nature and landscape:
'What are the colours of music? … I am challenged by the colours that can be found in the air, wind and weather, as well as the more easily recognisable colours in the tangible world of nature.'
In a brief handwritten note about this painting, Aspden asserted that ‘… (it refers) to Australia – to Aboriginal sounds’, although he had no knowledge of Indigenous music as such. Rather, the work should be seen as part of Aspden’s ongoing struggle to respond to place, evident since the early 1980s, when he sought to understand his work and himself as an Australian artist.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
David Aspden: A celebration of colour (2004), Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 21 Jul 2004
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2005, Sydney, 2005, 17-18, 63.
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John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Especially for hue', pg. 28-29, Sydney, 16 Jul 2005-17 Jul 2005, 28, 29.
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John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Harmonious effects', pg. 14-15, Sydney, 13 Aug 2011-14 Aug 2011, 14. Article appears in 'Spectrum' supplement.
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Anne Ryan, David Aspden: the colour of music and place, 'David Aspden: the colour of music and place', pg. 6-11, Sydney, 2011, 9, 10, 64-65 (colour illus.), 83, 89. The reference on pg. 83 is to the related painting 'Seasons of drought'.
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Alan Sisley, David Aspden: A celebration of colour, Orange, 2002, (colour illus.). unpaginated
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