Fragments of a Lost Place No 2

Robert Preston (1985) Fragments of a Lost Place No 2. [Artwork]

Fragments of a Lost Place No 2 by Robert Preston. © Robert Forrest Preston. Photograph by Carl Warner.
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Item Type: Artwork
Collection: JCU Art Collection
Item Code: ACC 171
Subjects: art; mixed media; Inner Visions

Artwork Details

Artist: Robert PRESTON

Artist Information:

Born 1942, United Kingdom

Title: Fragments of a Lost Place No 2
Date: 1985
Medium: Charcoal from site and black chalk on Arches paper
Dimensions: 75 x 108 cm
Credit Line:

Exhibited at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Survey Exhibition 1989.
Exhibited in Robert Preston Inner Visions: Observation, Abstraction and Imagination, 1955-2021 held at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery June-August 2021.
Donated to the James Cook University Art Collection in 1992 by the Artist.

Summary

According to the artist, Robert Preston:

"The Fragments of a Lost Place No 2 is a much-enlarged image of a clay fragment, onto which has been superimposed convention align images of plants, trees, waterbirds and anthropomorphic figures. The image was constructed over a neonthic grid pattern. The baked clay fragment (drawn from life) was taken prior to a site development on the Bohle River."

Note: No 2 of a pair – Fragments of a Lost Place No 1 is in the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.

Additional Information

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