VENUS IN TULLAMARINE
Curated by Cam Hurst and Jeremy George
George Paton Gallery
Ella Howells, Katie Paine, Cat Lawrance and Nicholas Currie
Venus in Tullamarine contains key works from the University’s Norman Lindsay collection, exhibited alongside responses from exhibiting artists. For a new generation of art historians and artists looking at 20th century Australian art, who is Norman Lindsay?
“Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) was a prolific, popular and controversial Australian artist. He is best known for his children’s book The Magic Pudding and his skilled prints, which mostly draw on Greek and Roman mythology and nineteenth century literature and philosophy. The Australian cultural consciousness is indelibly marked by Lindsay’s output, his prominence in the Sydney bohemian intellectual scene and by The Magic Pudding, which entrances the imagination of generation after generation of Australian children. This consciousness is marked too by the paradoxical conjunctions of Lindsay’s life: artistic bohemia and fascistic tendencies, avant-gardism and a fervour for the rule of law, libertinism and conservatism, worship and denigration.” Hurst and George
Artwork details:
Katie Paine
A Beguiling Congregation, 2022
Eucalyptus Transfer Print on 30 meter Fabriano archival paper scroll, bamboo, enamel paint
Images Courtesy: Naveed Farro
Venus in Tullamarine: Art, Sex, Politics and Norman Linsay available through Memo.
