George Popperwell b. 1935

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
George Popperwell began his exhibiting career in London before making the move to Australia in 1977. At this time he took a post educating at the South Australian School of Art, which continued until 2001, when he retired in order to further pursue his artistic practice. George Popperwell is represented in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia.
exhibited at
Fr. Lettuce
Date
2003
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/archives/index_frames.html (06/12/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Landing 3: Iacobelli Aldo, George Popperwell, Sally-Ann Rowland
Date
2000
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

The third in a series, bringing together previously exhibited works by three Adelaide based artists; allowing for a further reading in a context different to that of the original.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/archives/index_frames.html (23/11/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Painting
exhibited at
Region
Date
1996
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

This was a major work by South Australian based artist George Popperwell. One half of the gallery on entrance was empty, its boundary marked by a dividing wall. Passing one entered a space that was filled with shapes and forms constructed out of marine plywood. These referenced various scales and expressions of architecture: from flat sheets at the far end of the space that suggested both decorative ogees in walls as well as funerary slabs, to simple cubes, to buildings with eves and roofs, some entire, some sectioned.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Recent works: George Popperwell
Date
1992
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Resisting representation the installation challenged the viewer, giving minimal clues to the meanings the works including a lack of pre-emptive titles.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation