Title
Study for 'Fort-forms torn by sky quakes'
1985
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1985
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.8 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., charcoal "Gleeson 18.8.85".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 168.2001
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
Gleeson visited Bolivia twice, in 1971 and 1973. During the latter trip he made a crossing of Lake Titicaca, a remote and highly elevated lake in the Andes, which is the basis for this surrealist landscape.
'Sky quakes - nature in turmoil. Fort forms suggest there was human activity and now nature is pulling it apart ... Places like Bolivia - Titicaca - gave me an extraordinary feeling of remoteness in time of some civilisation. That Andes experience may have influenced this. Infinitely remote in time and place - yet at the same time something eternal ...', Gleeson quoted in Renée Free's unpublished catalogue of James Gleeson's work.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 89.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 89 (colour illus.). cat.no. 37
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