Robert Jacks 'Lake Eyre Garden (Yellow)' minimalist

Robert Jacks 'Lake Eyre Garden (Yellow)' minimalistRobert Jacks represents one of Australias most esteemed and distinctive abstract artists. From selling out his first solo exhibition in 1966, spending ten years on a self described international internship in New York and Canada through to a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014, Jacks spent a lifetime fine tuning his visual language. He grew up learning to draw the garden with his father, a horticulturalist. In art school he

John Beard is a prestigious Sydney-London based artist who specialises in semi-abstraction and portraiture

an annual festival that celebrates Joyce’s masterpiece ‘Ulysses’

Originally painted in 1956

He desperately stares out at the unflinching red sky - perilous to the blazingly sublime Australian landscape

That he is the progeny of an icon gives his work a unique perspective

was an Archibald Prize finalist and the subject of a major monograph

‘Split Composition’

'Untitled (Loafer)' 1990

demonstrating an understanding of nature and printmaking born only from total immersion

The dynamic movement of water as it flows through the feature is evoked through Jack’s sharp angled dashes and lines

As a wife and mother

Image Size: 10 x 13 cm