Dick Watkins b. 1937

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exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1981
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Colourists 77
Date
1977
Place
Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fifty Years of the National Art School
Date
1974
Place
Bonython Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Biennale of Sydney
Date
1973
Place
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Field
Date
1968
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

The Field was the first temporary exhibition in the newly opened National Gallery of Victoria building in St Kilda Road. Its curators, John Stringer and Brian Finemore, proudly proclaimed its partisanship as it celebrated the work of a new generation of Australian abstract artists.
“It is not impartial and comprehensive. It is biassed to define one particular direction in contemporary Australian art,” they wrote.
The Field was held a year after MoMA’s Two Decades of American Painting travelled to Sydney and Melbourne, and both its content and its catalogue were significantly influenced by that exhibition. Its professional production as much as the content of the lively hard edge abstract works encouraged the perception that this was the avant garde in Australia in 1968.
In 2018, the 50th anniversary of The Field, the National Gallery of Victoria recreated the exhibition at Federation Square.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Colour field, Abstract, Hard edge, Minimalism
exhibited at
Young Commonwealth Painters
Date
1962
Place
RBA Galleries, London, England
Description
Type
Exhibition

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  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Australian Colourists 77 (exhibited at)
  • Fifty Years of the National Art School (exhibited at)
  • The Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • The Field (exhibited at)
  • Young Commonwealth Painters (exhibited at)