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Andrew Sayers Bogola Head 2015 gouache on paper, 57 x 76 cm
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Andrew Sayers, Wooden Bridge, South Coast 2011 gouache on paper, 42 x 59 cm
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Andrew Sayers, Wallaga Lake, Looking East 2013 gouache on paper34 x 47 cm
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Andrew Sayers, Catani Gardens, St Kilda 2015 gouache on paper, 26 x 36 cm
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Andrew Sayers, Basalt Island I (Lady Julia Percy Island) 2014 gouache on paper, 38 x 57 cm
Exhibition
Andrew Sayers: Defining the Artist
2 Mar 2019 – 27 Apr 2019
Event times
Gallery Hours: Tues- Fri 10am - 6pm Saturdays during exhibitions 1pm -5pm
Cost of entry
Free entry.
Address
- 5 Malakoff Street
- Caulfield North
Victoria - 3161
- Australia
Travel Information
- Walking distance from Malvern Station on the Frankston/Packenham/Dandenong line
An exhibition by Andrew Sayers, showing at Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 2 March - 27 April 2019. Preview the exhibition on our website and download the illustrated catalogue www.diggins.com.au.
About
Andrew Sayers, the artist, came as a surprise to many who were well aware of the achievements of the talented scholar, curator and Director, (including inaugural Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia 1998 - 2010). It had always been Sayers' intention to 'flip sides' and dedicate time to a career as a practising artist. This exhibition of gouaches from 2010 - 2015 reveal an artist concerned with capturing a sense of space and asserting his love of rocks, sea and sky.
The gouaches were painted en plain-air, statements citing "the challenge of taking a sheet of paper into nature and capturing something of a place and a mood." They are an expression of Sayers' delight in travel, in capturing the essence of a landscape, especially coastal views, and expose his passion for geology through depictions of rocky places. An exploration of geological time is also a feature of these works, of brief moments contrasted with longer, drawn-out time, such as the ever-changing sea crashing against rocks shaped over eons.
Through his public exhibition of paintings, Sayers has left an indelible mark as an artist, defining him beyond his successful and celebrated institutional career.
