Education :: Imants Tillers: The long poem
Suitable for Senior Secondary students
Learning Links: Visual Arts, English, History, Society & Environment
Themes: identity, place, time, displacement, appropriation, Post-Modernism, fragmentation, Art & Australian history, cross-cultural issues
Resources: Guided tours & educational materials
In a series of large, multi-layered and compelling paintings Imants Tillers has established himself as one of the most important Australian artists of the last 25 years. From early works in this exhibition, such as White Aborigines (from 1983), through to his great 2007 painting Lacrimae Rerum (for Dzidra), Imants Tillers’ paintings are rich and seductive.
Tillers’ landscapes are made up of fragments of borrowed images and of language – marks, words, phrases and names used to create the country, to give it form and to place oneself within it. Using simple means – hundreds of small canvasboards combined into huge gridded paintings – they exist as part of a long, continuing series, or like a poem in many fragmented verses.
Although Tillers has had a strong influence on Australian art since the early 1980s, this is really the first time that Western Australian audiences are able to appreciate the true scope and scale of his work. The long poem exhibition is a significant event.
School groups are welcome to have a picnic in the Sunken Garden located next to the gallery as part of their visit.
Imants Tillers, Lacrimae Rerum (for Dzidra), 2007 [Detail], synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 288 can vasboards, 304.8x914.4 cms
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When
12 Feb–21 Apr: Tues - Fri 11am - 5pm
Sun 12 - 5pm
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Where
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWALawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
Address: 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley
Phone: Gallery Information Line: (08) 6488 3707
The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is acknowledged as one of the finest university galleries in Australia.
The Gallery presents a program of innovative exhibitions, featuring the University's extensive Art Collection, as well as new, contemporary art, and touring shows.
The gallery reopened in September 2007 after extensive building renovations that included improving the Gallery's air-conditioning and fire and lighting systems.
Transport
Located at the University of WA Campus on Stirling Highway, and is serviced by buses on both Stirling Highway and Mounts Bay Road. There is a set down / pick up point behind the theatre suitable for cars, taxis, maxi taxis & small buses. Enter off Hackett Drive adjacent to University House.
Transperth Infoline: 13 62 13
Parking
Ticketed parking is available on campus off Fairway, next to the Gallery, in University carpark number 20.
Access
The Gallery is wheelchair accessible. A manual wheelchair is available for visitor use, free of charge from Gallery reception. Accessible toilets are available.
Carparking is available for ACROD permit holders on Fairway adjacent to the Gallery.- FREE EVENT
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