22 June – 4 August
SYNERGY: TONY TUCKSON – drawing into painting is an ANU Drill Hall Gallery travelling exhibition, curated by Terence Maloon and Tony Oates.
Delmar Gallery is proud to present a major exhibition from the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, curated by its former director, Terence Maloon and current acting director, Tony Oates.
Tony Tuckson’s stature in Australian art has grown exponentially since his death in 1973 at the age of 52. His prolific output over a mere 25 years has been gradually uncovered and continuously re-estimated.
Synergy: Tony Tuckson – drawing into painting reveals Tuckson as a source of inexhaustible creative improvisation. Delving into the Tuckson Estate archives, Maloon and Oates discovered a wealth of never-exhibited works on paper replete with artistic surprises. Over 30 of these works are presented in this exhibition along with key paintings, spanning the remarkable adventure of Tuckson’s life’s work from his diploma painting at the National Art School in 1949 to his sublime abstract expressionist paintings of 1970 – 1973.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated 108pp catalogue.
Tuckson’s art is a classic example of transvaluation, where mess turns into articulate composition, roughness into delicacy, accident into design, clumsiness into grace, chaos into cosmos, matter into ‘mind’.
– Terence Maloon
Tony Tuckson, Untitled [TD2486] undated, gouache and collage on newspaper, 79.1 x 60.3cm. Courtesy Tuckson Estate and Rogue Pop-up Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 22 June – 4 August, 2024
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-5pm. Free admission.
Exhibition opening reception: Sunday 30 June, 2 – 4pm
Guest speaker: James Drinkwater, artist
UPCOMING PUBLIC PROGRAMS
SUNDAY 14 JULY
EXHIBITION DISCUSSION
Hear curators Terence Maloon and Tony Oates in conversation with artist Tony Twigg, discussing the exhibition SYNERGY: TONY TUCKSON – Drawing into painting.
DETAILS
In conversation | 2-3pm
Free admission, bookings required
SATURDAY 27 JULY 2024
LECTURE BY TERENCE MALOON
Tuckson, Fairweather and the Crisis of Easel Painting
In conjunction with the exhibition SYNERGY: TONY TUCKSON – Drawing into painting, art historian and curator Terence Maloon will present a lecture on two major Australian 20th century artists, Ian Fairweather and Tony Tuckson.
In particular, he will discuss how each artist responded to, and acted out, what the critic Clement Greenberg described in 1948 as the ‘crisis of the easel picture’
DETAILS
Lecture | 3.30 – 4.30pm (refreshments and exhibition viewing from 3pm)
