Per Lowry’s artist’s statement: “It is important to me when I am making a work that I take the subject to a place that has memory and history attached to it because I am interested in exploring the subject’s interaction with that landscape. We went to Penelope’s iconic house in Killara [which we wrote about briefly in an entirely different context yesterday], which she designed with her late husband Harry Seidler in the 1960s. It’s an incredible space architecturally but it is also loaded with history and memories of life very well lived.
We spent some time in the bush at the back of the property looking at the waterfall. At one point, Penelope looked back at the house towering over us and reflected that it had been some time since she had seen it from this angle. It was that reflection that I wanted to explore with this portrait.“
The recipient of this year’s Wynne Prize winner was Michael Johnson for his arresting landscape, Oceania high low; Andrew Sullivan likewise won The Sulman Prize for his subject painting, T-rex (tyrant lizard king), all of which can be viewed below respectively.
Now in its 93rd year, you can view the Archibald Prize and its affiliate exhibits from tomorrow until September 28th at the AGNSW, followed by a regional tour that will continue into 2015.
