Ballan Bolton

New York to France
Opening Tuesday 24 August 6-8pm
21 August – 15 September 2010

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Ballan Bolton

Yellow Tree, New York
oil on linen
33×50cm
SOLD

about the artist

Media Release

From New York to France
Alice Bale Scholarship winner Ballan Bolton’s new exhibition
opens in Sydney

Ballan Bolton, recipient of the prestigious Alice Bale Travelling Scholarship, will exhibit From New York to France at Robin Gibson Gallery from 21 August.

The exhibition was inspired by ten months travelling and painting overseas. From an elderly woman sending a text on the St Petersburg metro, to a ramshackle backyard in rural France, the works examines the reality, and often simple beauty, of people’s everyday lives.

“I carried a sketch-book with me all the time and made sketches of every-day scenes to gather ideas for the paintings” said Ballan.

From New York to France is Ballan’s second solo show in Sydney and follows his inaugural exhibition at the National Museum of Vanuatu in 2008. Ballan, a realist painter, sighted an eclectic mix of Brett Whiteley, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Egon Schiele as inspiration for the current exhibition.

Ballan grew up in Tanja in the Bega Valley on the New South Wales south coast. Ballan loved drawing and painting from a young age. He left school at 16 and became a sign-writing apprentice in Sydney. Ballan put himself through the Julian Ashton Art School, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Art in 2004.

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