STUDIO
Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd
Thursday 27 May - Sunday 4 July 2010
Image Credit:Yvette Watt in her studio in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia at 4:39 pm on June 21st, 2005
Photography by R. Ian Lloyd
For an artist, the studio is the engine room of their creativity. It is both playground and prison cell, the place where long, long days are spent wrestling with the muse. For the public, the artist's studio is a mysterious and magical place where an infinite diversity of images is brought to life.
The extensive photographic and journalistic work carried out by National Geographic photographer Lloyd and acclaimed art critic and writer John McDonald culminated in Studio: Australian painters photographed by R. Ian Lloyd.
Their aim was to capture a broad cross-section of artists from all over Australia, including traditional Aboriginal painters, working in a variety of styles. The photographic studies reveal each artist, in fascinating detail, in their working environment: an inner city loft, kitchen table or the sandy earth of the outback.
STUDIO provides visual and verbal insights into the complex blend of motivation and inspiration that sustains these 61 individual artists, revealing the way their studio space affects and stimulates their creativity.
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