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From 14/August/2010 to 24/August/2010
Crispin Akerman at Greenhill Galleries
Greenhill Galleries is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of refined still-life works by Sydney based artist, CRISPIN AKERMAN.
Akerman attended the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, before completing his Bachelor of Arts at the Canberra Institute of Arts in 1992. He also worked as an assistant to painters Mandy Martin and Robert Boynes. Crispin now works full-time as an artist, exhibiting widely in Australia.
Akerman’s paintings invite our re-engagement with an ancient genre. Still life reflects an appreciation of the profound mystery contained in the objects with which we surround ourselves. Such work highlights the condition of the everyday, whose familiarity often obscures its role as an expression of the wonder and beauty of material being. An inner tension renders the works too unsettling to be purely decorative.
Making use of stylistic characteristics evocative of the Dutch Masters of the seventeenth century, Akerman invites the viewer to take a fresh look at what this meditative approach might offer today.
“Still life painting both directs and captures the gaze. Worn enamel jugs and bowls suggest a human presence; books and autumn leaves speak of the passing of time. The decorative and architectural balance implied in these forms also carries with it the notion of unbalance and chaos, as if something is about to happen. This is what is interesting about the genre, the contemplative potential in it, the suggestion of the kinetic in the static, the metaphysical promise present in the very words, 'still life'.”
Crispin Akerman, March 2010.
Crispin Akerman’s works are included in numerous private and corporate collections, including the Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra; Artbank, Sydney; BHP Billiton, Sydney; Australian National University, Canberra and the St John of God Hospital Collection, Murdoch WA.
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