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Treescape - NGA Canberra
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1- Patrick Collins
(b. 1942, London, England

Lives in Australia since 1966)
Curtain call, 2003

Ceramic, earthenware, tin-glazed
Maiolica in-glaze painting
h 118 x w 85.5 x d 16 cm

2- Laurel Nannup
(b. 1943, Australia)

The lollie tree, 2001
Print, relief
Technique: woodcut,

printed in black ink,

from one block

58.2 h x 58.5 w cm
Gordon Darling Australasian

Print Fund 2006

It's summer, so the National Gallery in Canberra offers to climb up the trees.

Treescape is a panorama of the history of trees in art since 1850. The pictorialist photographs by John Kauffman (1864-1942), influenced by the blurry atmospheric effects found in etching, are succeeded by the black and white pictures of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), works of exceptional precision in which the barks are often featured close up.

More contemporary, Sally Smart's installation Family tree house (shadows and symptoms), created between 1999 and 2002, fills up an entire wall in one of the rooms. Hundreds of pieces of felt make up the shape of a life-sized tree inhabited by strange creatures and hybrid, unidentifiable objects - as the shadows that lurk within all family trees.

The Australian NGA does not forget the fauna that people the boughs; possums and bats carved in bark, ceramic koalas, green frogs and birds, all show up at some point.

Now let's get to Australia!

 

Treescape, April 12 through August 30, 08

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Exhibition page on www.nga.gov.au