FEELING THE PULSE OF THE EARTH, 2016
LIONEL BAWDEN
coloured Staedtler pencils, epoxy, Incralac, metal
55.0 x 53.0 x 5.0 cm
Private collection, New South Wales
This is a refinement of Bawden’s sustained exploration of landscape – his most essential point of reference. These works exploit Bawden’s long engagement with his core medium – the sculptural honeycomb of coloured pencils, with an innate logic continuously yielding rich possibilities for the artist. They speak directly of the meandering lines of traversing landscape, the voids and ellipses of mountain pools and rock formations, skirting the edge of waterholes, doubling back around and walking along both sides of a canyon. Bawden synchronously transmits these terrains into pulsating abstractions.
Lionel Bawden lives and works in New South Wales
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
REPRESENTED BY
Karen Woodbury Fine Art, Melbourne
Artereal Gallery, Sydney