Fairweather
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.faculty | Arts | |
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.summary | <p>Research Background</p> <p><em>Face 2 Face</em> is a group exhibition which has been curated by Robin Gibson from the Robin Gibson Gallery. The primary focus of the exhibition is portraits by the gallery artists, and invited artists, of other artists, both Australian and International. Portraiture continues to play an important role in Australian art circles as can be seen in the annual exhibitions The Archibald Prize, and the Doug Moran Prize. The portrait <em>Fairweather</em> which I contributed to the exhibition is a zinc plate etching on Fabriano 220gsm paper. The focus of the work Fairweather, was to capture a likeness of the artist, yet customise this likeness to reflect the inner struggles the artist had with anxiety and suspicion, while living a considerably hermitic life as an artist on Bribe Island near Brisbane. It was my intention capture the many facial lines of the artist via the etching process, which lends itself so well to such delineations.</p> <p>Research Contribution</p> <p>The research contribution of the work is the original manner in which the work was made. While the work typifies a standard bust portrait in the sense of showing only the head and neck of the sitter, there was no opportunity to have the artist sit for the work due to his death in 1974. I thus relied on photographic imagery for a likeness, although the image used was extensively manipulated with digital software to accentuate Fairweather’s forlorn facial expression, and inner turmoil of worry which has been well chronicled. Given the artist is deceased, I utilized photographic material as a source image, and applied an elongated distortion to the image in Photoshop. This was done to emphasise Fairweather’s somber facial expression captured in some of his photographic portraits. The print itself employs two plates for the image. This was chosen to provide an element of signature to the means Fairweather used to construct his larger works on cardboard. The larger works were assembled form multiple small pieces of card, and glued to a larger backing board. In addition to this, the plates were run through the press twice, resulting in a slightly three-dimensional effect of double imaging. This provided a somewhat disconcerting focal plane to the facial delineations of the portrait, accentuating what I understand as the artist’s struggle with anxiety and suspicion.</p> <p>Research Significance</p> <p>The significance and the value of the work are testified by the fact that the work was selected to form part of the exhibition <em>Face 2 Face</em>. Other artists of note contributing to the exhibition include Brett Whitely and Ken Done, who have both hung portraits in the Archibald prize; which Brett Whitely incidentally won twice in the mid. 1970’s, once with his own self portrait.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.abstract | <p><em>Face 2 Face</em> is a group exhibition which has been curated by Robin Gibson from the Robin Gibson Gallery. The primary focus of the exhibition is portraits by the gallery artists, and invited artists, of other artists, both Australian and International. Portraiture continues to play an important role in Australian art circles as can be seen in the annual exhibitions The Archibald Prize, and the Doug Moran Prize. The portrait <em>Fairweather</em> which I contributed to the exhibition is a zinc plate etching on Fabriano 220gsm paper. The focus of the work Fairweather, was to capture a likeness of the artist, yet customise this likeness to reflect the inner struggles the artist had with anxiety and suspicion, while living a considerably hermitic life as an artist on Bribe Island near Brisbane. It was my intention capture the many facial lines of the artist via the etching process, which lends itself so well to such delineations.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.articleid | 1003 | |
| avondale-bepress.authors | Richard Morris | |
| avondale-bepress.context-key | 5944814 | |
| avondale-bepress.coverpage-url | https://research.avondale.edu.au/arts_creativeworks/3 | |
| avondale-bepress.document-type | creativework | |
| avondale-bepress.field.author_faculty_discipline | Arts | |
| avondale-bepress.field.comments | <p>Used by permission: the artist</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.creator | <p>Research Background</p> <p><em>Face 2 Face</em> is a group exhibition which has been curated by Robin Gibson from the Robin Gibson Gallery. The primary focus of the exhibition is portraits by the gallery artists, and invited artists, of other artists, both Australian and International. Portraiture continues to play an important role in Australian art circles as can be seen in the annual exhibitions The Archibald Prize, and the Doug Moran Prize. The portrait <em>Fairweather</em> which I contributed to the exhibition is a zinc plate etching on Fabriano 220gsm paper. The focus of the work Fairweather, was to capture a likeness of the artist, yet customise this likeness to reflect the inner struggles the artist had with anxiety and suspicion, while living a considerably hermitic life as an artist on Bribe Island near Brisbane. It was my intention capture the many facial lines of the artist via the etching process, which lends itself so well to such delineations.</p> <p>Research Contribution</p> <p>The research contribution of the work is the original manner in which the work was made. While the work typifies a standard bust portrait in the sense of showing only the head and neck of the sitter, there was no opportunity to have the artist sit for the work due to his death in 1974. I thus relied on photographic imagery for a likeness, although the image used was extensively manipulated with digital software to accentuate Fairweather’s forlorn facial expression, and inner turmoil of worry which has been well chronicled. Given the artist is deceased, I utilized photographic material as a source image, and applied an elongated distortion to the image in Photoshop. This was done to emphasise Fairweather’s somber facial expression captured in some of his photographic portraits. The print itself employs two plates for the image. This was chosen to provide an element of signature to the means Fairweather used to construct his larger works on cardboard. The larger works were assembled form multiple small pieces of card, and glued to a larger backing board. In addition to this, the plates were run through the press twice, resulting in a slightly three-dimensional effect of double imaging. This provided a somewhat disconcerting focal plane to the facial delineations of the portrait, accentuating what I understand as the artist’s struggle with anxiety and suspicion.</p> <p>Research Significance</p> <p>The significance and the value of the work are testified by the fact that the work was selected to form part of the exhibition <em>Face 2 Face</em>. Other artists of note contributing to the exhibition include Brett Whitely and Ken Done, who have both hung portraits in the Archibald prize; which Brett Whitely incidentally won twice in the mid. 1970’s, once with his own self portrait.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.custom_citation | <p>Morris, R. (2014). <em>Fairweather</em> [Etching on paper]. Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.embargo_date | 2014-08-12T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.field.field_of_education | 10 Creative Arts | |
| avondale-bepress.field.for | 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) | |
| avondale-bepress.field.ntro | Creative Work - Visual Art | |
| avondale-bepress.field.publication_date | 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.field.quality | Disseminated via nationally recognised outlet or entity | |
| avondale-bepress.field.reportable_items | Creative Work | |
| avondale-bepress.field.scale | Major | |
| avondale-bepress.field.source_publication | <p>This creative work was originally published as:</p> <p>Morris, R. (2014). <em>Fairweather</em> [Etching on paper]. Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.staff_classification | Permanent | |
| avondale-bepress.fulltext-url | https://research.avondale.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=arts_creativeworks&unstamped=1 | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | artwork | |
| avondale-bepress.label | 3 | |
| avondale-bepress.native-url | https://research.avondale.edu.au/context/arts_creativeworks/article/1003/type/native/viewcontent | |
| avondale-bepress.publication-date | 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.publication-title | Arts Creative Works | |
| avondale-bepress.state | published | |
| avondale-bepress.submission-date | 2014-08-12T21:26:05Z | |
| avondale-bepress.submission-path | arts_creativeworks/3 | |
| avondale-bepress.title | Fairweather | |
| avondale-bepress.type | article | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morris, Richard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-01T00:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-01T00:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-07-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014-08-12T21:26:05Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | <p><em>Face 2 Face</em> is a group exhibition which has been curated by Robin Gibson from the Robin Gibson Gallery. The primary focus of the exhibition is portraits by the gallery artists, and invited artists, of other artists, both Australian and International. Portraiture continues to play an important role in Australian art circles as can be seen in the annual exhibitions The Archibald Prize, and the Doug Moran Prize. The portrait <em>Fairweather</em> which I contributed to the exhibition is a zinc plate etching on Fabriano 220gsm paper. The focus of the work Fairweather, was to capture a likeness of the artist, yet customise this likeness to reflect the inner struggles the artist had with anxiety and suspicion, while living a considerably hermitic life as an artist on Bribe Island near Brisbane. It was my intention capture the many facial lines of the artist via the etching process, which lends itself so well to such delineations.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.citation | <p>Morris, R. (2014). <em>Fairweather</em> [Etching on paper]. Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/123456789/05944814 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_us | |
| dc.provenance | <p>This creative work was originally published as:</p> <p>Morris, R. (2014). <em>Fairweather</em> [Etching on paper]. Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia.</p> | |
| dc.rights | <p>Used by permission: the artist</p> | |
| dc.subject | artwork | |
| dc.title | Fairweather | |
| dc.type | Creative Work |