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David Keeling (1951-) Australia

Lot 8
Veil
2000
Oil on linen
183 x 152cm (stretcher)
Signed dated verso
Exhibited Bett Gallery, Hobart Exhibition Second Nature

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Two-time winner of the prestigious Glover Prize for Australian landscape painting, previously winner Hobart City Art Prize, 1991, as well as a finalist in numerous national art awards, Keeling’s work has been acquired in many corporate and private collections both in Australia and overseas. This painting, Veil (2000), represents a significant mature work from a seminal period.

“In 1988, Keeling was awarded an Australia Council residency at the Verdaccio Studios, located in a twelfth century monastery in Tuscany. In 1985, he had also visited Spain. Exposure to the rich cultural life of Europe seems to have brought to its fullest expression an innate sense of poetry which was later developed into emblematic works like To the Island (1990) and Veil (1992). Veil, which interweaves two related themes – man’s encroachment on the landscape and his concomitant state of removal from it – may be seen as a precursor to gate, Frame, and Shroud. This current exhibition shows a concerted determination to simplify, to attain the essence of the poetic imagination by going further into the nature of objects and by so doing endowing them with the authority of symbols.”
Victoria Hammond, Hobart, October 1994 – David Keeling ‘Spread’ Niagara Galleries, 1994

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