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Figurative Fictions
Sep 7, 2024
Nov 24, 2024
permanent exhibition
Figurative Fictions is an immersive new exhibition, drawn entirely from the Gallery’s permanent collection, that explores storytelling through visual art.

Featuring almost fifty works, including some previously unseen, the exhibition leads viewers on a journey through figurative art that encourages us to complete or supply the narrative. Each work appeals to our human need to engage with figures and to connect with human emotions, and while each artist supplies the ingredients of the story, the narrative is often less than obvious!

As exhibition curator Dr Louisa Waters writes, ‘Here in Figurative Fictions, we explore the way we respond to a particular kind of figurative art, one where the viewer is drawn to extrapolate meaning, as our imaginations are invited to play with the possible scenarios and permit any number of potential narratives to unfold’.

The exhibition features works by a range of local, Australian and international artists, such as Susan Fraser, Geoffrey Ricardo, Salvador Dali, Colin Lanceley, Gillian Kline, Arthur Boyd, Juli Haas, Rodney Forbes, Euan Heng, and many others.

Selected Artworks
Salvador DALI
Don Quixote
Year:  
c. 1946
Medium:  
Two-colour lithograph on paper
Size:  
40.4 x 44.7 cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Dr Douglas Kagi through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© 
Trevor SMITH
Gingerbread House
Year:  
2016-17
Medium:  
Wool and foamcore
Size:  
30 x 40 x 28 cm
Gippsland Art Gallery, Textile Collection. Purchased, 2019
© 
Gillian KLINE
God of Carnage - Tsunami
Year:  
2011
Medium:  
Colour reduction linocut on paper
Size:  
55 x 35 cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of the Gippsland Art Gallery Society, 2013
© 
Sidney NOLAN
Kelly with Rifle
Year:  
1967
Medium:  
Lithograph on paper
Size:  
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Dr Douglas Kagi through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© 
Arthur BOYD
Lady and Unicorn Wrapped in Foliage
Year:  
1973-4
Medium:  
Etching and aquatint on paper
Size:  
60.4 x 42.5 cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Lesley Duxbury through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2017.
© 
Euan HENG
Only Strangers Travel
Year:  
1987
Medium:  
Oil on canvas
Size:  
181.3 x 152 cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by the artist through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program in memory of Dr Rosemary Adam 1933—2022, Art Historian and Photographer, 2022
© 
Geoffrey RICARDO
The Cellular City II
Year:  
1999
Medium:  
Etching and drypoint print on paper
Size:  
89.1 x 118.4 cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Dr Douglas Kagi through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© 
Rick AMOR
The Runner
Year:  
2021
Medium:  
Bronze
Size:  
10 x 55 x 26 cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by the artist through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2023. Cast by Perrin Foundry
© 
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