Guy Gilmour

3 - 28 March, 2007

My Orara Myriorama

 

 

 

Artist Statement

In the late 80s I settled in The Orara River Valley north west of Coffs Harbour where my wife's family have farmed for several generations. The area's now declining rural economy, modestly scaled landscape, friends and family supply most of the subject matter for my work.

I take inspiration from the Arcadian Classical tradition as created and extended by the likes of Longus (Daphnis and Chloe), Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Bonnard and Finlay that seems so appropriate to this corner of the world. I subject my essentially anecdotal material to careful formal organisation with the aim of producing well made pictures that translate a particular experience into a more universal mood or feeling.

In 2004 I won the Countryenergy Art Prize for Landscape Painting and later that year undertook an Artist in Residency at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale NSW.
This is my first exhibition of new work since my retrospective Guy Gilmour: Painting in the Orara Valley 1990-2005, curated by Sandra Warner, at the Coffs Harbour City Art Gallery in 2005. In some of these paintings I am beginning to more explicitly draw out the Arcadian Classical themes that have informed my work while still retaining my domestic and local focus.

The title work in this exhibition My Orara Myriorama employs the 19th Century format of multiple panels that can be arranged in any order. It presents elements of the landscape I am most familiar with and allows the viewer to participate with me in what I find the great challenge and pleasure in painting pictures: finding new ways to see the familiar.

Guy Gilmour
February 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Guy Gilmour

1955
1978
1984 
1988 
2005
 
Born in Sydney
Diploma in Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education School of Art
B.A. (Visual Arts) City Art Institute, Sydney
Moved to Coramba, New South Wales.
Artist in Residence, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South Wales

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1981
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1984
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2007
 
Umberumberaka Gallery, Armidale
Parmenta Gallery, Walcha
Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Lake Russell Gallery, Coffs Harbour
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Cintra Galleries,Brisbane
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
Lake Russell Gallery, Coffs Harbour
Cintra Galleries, Brisbane
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Lake Russell Gallery, Coffs Harbour
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Maria Perides Gallery, Brisbane
Lake Russell Gallery, Coffs Harbour
Guy Gilmour: painting in the Orara Valley 1990-2005, Coffs Harbour City Art Gallery.
Life and Times: paintings by Guy Gilmour. New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982-83 
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1993
2001
2003 - 05  
2004
 
New England Regional Artists Survey Exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum and 
Tamworth City Art Gallery
Australian Pavilion, Expo'93, Taejon, Korea
Our Place - Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery Inaugural Exhibition
The State of Art - Peace, Manly Art Gallery and Museum (touring exhibition)
A Sense of Place, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery

AWARDS
1981
1982 
1983
1990
2004
 
Inverell Art Prize
Moree Art Prize
Inverell Art Prize
Nambucca Valley Art Prize
The CountryEnergy Art Prize for Landscape Painting

COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Tamworth City Art Gallery 
Logan City Art Gallery
Abbott Tout Russell Kennedy
Toga Group of Companies
Coffs Harbour City Council
New England Regional Art Museum

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Images 2 Contemporary Australian Painting" by Nevill Drury 1994 Craftsman House
"Images 3 Contemporary Australian Painting" by Nevill Drury 1998 Craftsman House
Guy Gilmour: painting in the Orara Valley 1990-2005.
Exhibition catalogue, essay by Jeanette Ransom

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