Howard Arkley
Best known for his visions of Australian suburbia, artist Howard Arkley created abstractions of typical houses and interiors, often toying with the two- and three-dimensional. The bold lines and bright colours he used created skewed views of the home, and constructed images question the line between usefulness and decoration, and the aspirations of the suburban dream.
Over his three decade long career, the Australian artist Howard Arkley (1951-1999) produced paintings, sculptures, and installations using a range of techniques from airbrushing to more conventional tools. Inspired by punk music, the club scene in the 70s and 80s, fashion, feminism and masculinity, and this vast range of potent influences are detectable in his striking body of work. His final major pieces were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and if his work is your thing, other artists you might like include: Roy Lichtenstein, Jeffrey Smart and Richard Larter.
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March 11, 2007 | New Art | by Zac |
Howard Arkley, the great Australian painter of suburbia, has a retrospective showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 10 March 2007 to 6 May 2007. I love his use of colour and strong outline, and the way he fashions the ordinary into something quite amazing. Well worth checking out. [more about Howard Arkley]
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April 26, 2007 | New Illustration | by Casper Johansson |
Amy Bennett captures the image of middle-America that the rest of the world grew up dreaming about. It’s all manicured lawns, sturdy cars, and smiling neighbours hiding secrets in the shadows. [see also Howard Arkley]
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June 12, 2007 | New Art | by Judy Z |
The Australian landscape, the subject of endless tributes by artists of all media, is given an intriguing and mysteriously-sexual twist by Fiona Lowry. In her show at Sydney’s Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Lowry has painted dream-like images of the bush. Instead of flora and fauna, she shows shadowy human figures, some engaged in overtly sexual behaviour, others more ambiguous, all alluring. To create these delicate spidery effects Lowry uses airbrush, a material more often associated with the boldness of Howard Arkley, say, or graffiti art, combined with photography. Airbrushed in washed out pinks, greens and browns, the work makes me wonder if I’ve missed out on something in my overdressed forays into the Australian bush.
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