CRAIG GOUGHThis series was based on Nicholas Poussin’s painting, “The Adoration of the Shepherds” 1637. The works that I did were not ‘quotations’ but rather, investigations of that painting searching out the formal and abstract elements as a renegotiation of the composition.Some 100 or so works, (oils on canvases, acrylics on paper and drawings) were the […]
This group of works began initially around the middle of 1986 and has continued at various times right up to the present.With the Yarra River, Princes Bridge, Flinders Railway Station, the Concert Hall and the Arts Centre, there has been much to occupy my desire to continually make an iconic statement about Melbourne.My main area […]
Subject matter is the point of departure. It is the initial inspiration and recognition of its possibility for painting; an element that is formally expanded upon and reinvented to probe its emotional and subconscious aspects. By emancipating the ‘idea’ from the image, I can give a formal and gestural expansion of one part as it […]