Under Lamplight
Albert Tucker (1914-1999) is along with Sidney Nolan the most accomplished member of the Heide Circle. Tucker is one of the first Australian artists to develop a distinctively Modernist aesthetic in relation to World War II. www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/we-are-dead-men-albert-tucke... [If you are interested, please open the pdf link here as it shows you some of Tucker's most interesting work.]
Both with his paintings and the camera, Tucker left his mark on the Melbourne art scene. He was also involved in the literary project of the Angry Penguins (and the infamous Ern Malley affair). Tucker was married to another artist closely related to Heide, Joy Hester.
"In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Tucker_(artist)#/media/File:Albert_Tucker_and_Joy_Hester_1939.jpg
After the war he travelled to Europe where he developed his artistic range even further. As one of the last surviving members of the Heide Circle, Tucker set about recording the history of Heide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Tucker_(artist)
This exhibition was curated by Patrick Pound, who ordered Tucker's work around the motif of the electric lamp: "The works are accompanied by a curated selection of Patrick Pound’s vast archive of found lamp-lit photographs and clippings: from vernacular snaps to newspaper photographs, cinema stills and archival images. As Pound describes, together they ‘light up like a crime scene caught in a newspaper photographer’s flash’.
The exhibition seeks to reconsider Tucker’s work through the singular frame of electric light: at once melancholy and moody, technical and historic, painterly and expressive. Pound’s photographic inventory further reminds us of the expressive possibilities of electric light through modernism and the history of design." www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/under-lamplight-albert-tucke...
Under Lamplight
Albert Tucker (1914-1999) is along with Sidney Nolan the most accomplished member of the Heide Circle. Tucker is one of the first Australian artists to develop a distinctively Modernist aesthetic in relation to World War II. www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/we-are-dead-men-albert-tucke... [If you are interested, please open the pdf link here as it shows you some of Tucker's most interesting work.]
Both with his paintings and the camera, Tucker left his mark on the Melbourne art scene. He was also involved in the literary project of the Angry Penguins (and the infamous Ern Malley affair). Tucker was married to another artist closely related to Heide, Joy Hester.
"In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Tucker_(artist)#/media/File:Albert_Tucker_and_Joy_Hester_1939.jpg
After the war he travelled to Europe where he developed his artistic range even further. As one of the last surviving members of the Heide Circle, Tucker set about recording the history of Heide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Tucker_(artist)
This exhibition was curated by Patrick Pound, who ordered Tucker's work around the motif of the electric lamp: "The works are accompanied by a curated selection of Patrick Pound’s vast archive of found lamp-lit photographs and clippings: from vernacular snaps to newspaper photographs, cinema stills and archival images. As Pound describes, together they ‘light up like a crime scene caught in a newspaper photographer’s flash’.
The exhibition seeks to reconsider Tucker’s work through the singular frame of electric light: at once melancholy and moody, technical and historic, painterly and expressive. Pound’s photographic inventory further reminds us of the expressive possibilities of electric light through modernism and the history of design." www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/under-lamplight-albert-tucke...