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Details
- Date
- 2005
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 180.0 x 180.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Dakota Corporation Pty Ltd 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 170.2014
- Copyright
- © Tim McMonagle
- Artist information
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Tim McMonagle
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About
A significant aspect of Tim McMonagle's practice is that he paints directly onto linen - specifically a square stretcher. In sidestepping preliminary sketching McMonagle opens up opportunities for chance and experimentation, but also failure and starting over. In his own words: 'A lot of people have a complete idea of what the painting will be before they begin it...I don't, I let it grow on the canvas' (McMonagle quoted in Chris Beck, 'Accidental artist', The Age, 10th September 2005, p 7).
His subject matter is inspired not by life, but from memory, imagination and source material such as photographs. The resulting images are painterly - sketchy, impastoed, stained and dripped - and dream-like in quality, depicting people, places, and situations that, in tangent with their materiality, are visual prompts for us to engage with the subject matter. 'Plaza' 2005 depicts McMonagle and his girlfriend Felicity shaping clay in their studio, and is based off an earlier work by the artist.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The difference between you and me, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Parkville, 06 Aug 2005–16 Oct 2005
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Bala Starr, The difference between you and me, 'The difference between you and me', pg. 2, Parkville, 2005, 2, 19, back cover (colour illus.). cat.no. 20
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