Recently included in the Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition ‘Pop to Popism’, Dick Watkins is a champion of Australian abstraction, known for his large-scale paintings that explore cubist, pop and abstract expressionist principles.
Citing inspiration from literature, art history and music, many works have their origins in the investigation of modernism. Vividly coloured flattened shapes punctuate backgrounds. In Embryionic Prime, disparate, bold hues fracture and coalesce across the plane. The painting’s scale directly connects to the physicality of the artist and the choreographic and spontaneous movement of his eye, arm and body.
Liverpool Street Gallery
9 May to 4 June, 2015
Sydney
Embryionic Prime, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 213cm
Courtesy the artist and Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
