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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 2001
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- brush and black ink, torn and abraded paper on two sheets of laminated white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 132.4 x 149.0 cm sheet; 146.0 x 160.5 x 6.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "harding". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Trustees of the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation 2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 326.2001
- Copyright
- © Nicholas Harding
- Dobell Prize for Drawing
- Winner - 2001
- Artist information
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Nicholas Harding
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About
The subject of this drawing is Sydney’s Central Station. Harding began with photographs and rough ‘thumbnail’ sketches in order to develop the composition before embarking on the final drawing, in various tones of ink, in his studio.
He describes his method of making the drawing thus:'Two sheets of … paper are glued together using (an) adhesive. The machinepressed surface of the paper is too hard and resistant to absorption so I ‘skin’ it to reveal the soft stratum of paper beneath. Drawing commences using a square-tipped palette knife, emery cloth and a broken palette knife that operates both as a large square nib and as a correction tool. As the drawing progresses correction occurs by rubbing back through the drawing to reveal the white paper surface, ready to receive fresh mark-making and tone. Everything moves around until both a compositional tension and a synthesis of materials and content occurs.' (Nicholas Harding, 2001).
This work won the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2001 and was acquired by the Gallery in 2001.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Dobell Prize for Drawing 2001, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Mar 2001–13 May 2001
Dobell Prize for Drawing: the first ten years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Sep 2004–30 Nov 2004
Nicholas Harding: drawn to paint, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 15 Jan 2010–07 Mar 2010
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, , 15 Feb 2013–24 Mar 2013
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, 30 Mar 2013–05 May 2013
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 05 Jul 2013–18 Aug 2013
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Darlinghurst, 29 Aug 2013–06 Oct 2013
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, 18 Oct 2013–24 Nov 2013
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 11 Apr 2014–18 May 2014
Margaret Olley: painter, peer, mentor, muse, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 07 Jan 2017–26 Mar 2017
Destination Sydney: Re-imaginings, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 07 Dec 2018–17 Mar 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Sasha Grishin, The Canberra Times, ‘Content ignored in hullabaloo’, pg. 11, Canberra, 31 Mar 2001, 11.
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Michael Hutak, The Bulletin, ‘Head and shoulder above’, pg. 84-85, Sydney, 27 Mar 2001, 84.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, ‘Drawing a winner: a decade of Dobell prizes shows us how and why’, pg. 24, Sydney, Aug 2003, 24.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, 'Drawing the spotlight', pg. 18-19, Sydney, Jun 2002, 18.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, ‘Introduction’, pg. 6-14, Sydney, 2012, 7, 36, 37 (illus.), 61.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, The Dobell Prize for Drawing: 1993-2004, ‘Introduction: the first ten years’, pg. 8-9, Sydney, 2004, 9, 13 (illus., detail), 32, 33 (illus.), 50, 53.
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Joyce Morgan, The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Art of Bell and soul of Lear lead painter to glittering rewards’, pg. 5, Sydney, 17 Mar 2001, 5.
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Renée Porter, Margaret Olley: painter, peer, mentor, muse, 'Margaret Olley: a celebration of life in paint', pg. 8-89, The Rocks, 2017, 32 (colour illus.), 114.
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Jennifer Sexton, The Weekend Australian, ‘Archibald bell tolls at last for artist … by a nose’, pg. 5, Canberra, 17 Mar 2001, 5.
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S.H. Ervin Gallery, Nicholas Harding: drawn to paint, Camperdown, 2009, 72 (illus.).
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Brownyn Watson, Look, 'Prize drawings: building a collection by competition', pg. 24-26, Melbourne, Oct 2001, 25 (illus.).
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