the 'WIRRI Safari' project
essential question - how can we as artists represent our unique australian identitY through landscape?
"I believe that Howard sees the suburbs as a landscape. One of the most interesting memories I have of Howard was him telling me he was moving to Oakleigh and he said to me, "yesterday I went to the milk bar and I was totally blown away by all the garage doors." He was intoxicated by the garage doors, and he saw enough there to be the source of art, Cezanne looked at mountains, van Gogh saw flowers, but Howard had an eye-full of garage doors!
He was absolutely engrossed by a type of banal iconography. He could see it and felt confident that he could dignify it and bring a lustre and honour to it.
Every community or society has artists, and Howard is our artist."
Peter Corrigan, Melbourne based architect
Page 89 – Spray, The work of Howard Arkley, Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, 1997
He was absolutely engrossed by a type of banal iconography. He could see it and felt confident that he could dignify it and bring a lustre and honour to it.
Every community or society has artists, and Howard is our artist."
Peter Corrigan, Melbourne based architect
Page 89 – Spray, The work of Howard Arkley, Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, 1997
theory Task - investigating the work of howard arkley
‘Australian art has been dominated by the rural landscape and I think there is something false and overrated – it’s romanticised or, at the very least, lopsided. Most of the population live in an urban environment. This environment affects us – the kinds of people that Australians are, and the way we behave. It affects our formative years, so it is a very important element.’
Page 88 – Spray, The Work of Howard Arkley, Ashley Crawford & Ray Edgar, 1997, unpublished interview with the authors.
Page 88 – Spray, The Work of Howard Arkley, Ashley Crawford & Ray Edgar, 1997, unpublished interview with the authors.
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