Exhibition insights into "Form and Feeling" at The Art Gallery of WA

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Join AMaGA WA Members and Friends for a Curator-led exhibition tour followed by Rooftop drinks at the Art Gallery of WA.

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Join AMaGA Western Australia for a range of brilliant events from breakfast speakers and critical discussions, to exhibition previews and behind the scenes exploration of WA's cultural institutions.

Join AGWA Associate Curator Karl Sagrabb for a tour of the recently opened exhibition Form and feeling: artists’ studies of the twentieth century. The show explores the centrality of drawing to the artistic practice of British and Australian artists. The exhibition brings together significant figurative oil paintings from The State Art Collection and their preparatory drawings – a number of which have never been shown before. The exhibition is focused upon technique and process, exploring the differing approaches to line, shape, contour and materiality as these artists think through issues of form and composition, visually developing their ideas as they progress preliminary sketches into finished works.This exhibition explores a facet of early twentieth-century British and Australian art history in which teaching institutions in England, in particular the Slade School of Art in London, informed the emergence of a group of ‘radical’ Modern artists that broke with a more academic tradition, and explores the influence that these artists had upon the Australian art scene at the time and for audiences today.The tour will end at 5pm and you're invited to retire to the Rooftop Bar for informal networking.

<blockquote>Cover image: Frank Auerbach Looking towards Mornington Crescent Station, Night, 1972-1973</blockquote><blockquote>oil on hardboard</blockquote><blockquote>127.0 x 126.5cm</blockquote><blockquote>The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia</blockquote><blockquote>Purchased 1974</blockquote><blockquote>© Estate of Frank Auerbach</blockquote> Photographed by : Bo Wong.

Agenda

Meeting at 3:45pm for a 4pm sharp start. Late arrivals may not be able to catch up with the tour. 

Meet in The Art Gallery of WA foyer

Tour with Associate Curator, Karl Sagrabb.

Join us on the the AGWA Rooftop and enjoy the brilliant city, hill and museum views with a refreshing beverage. Food and drink not included. 

AGWA Rooftop Bar informal networking

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