Page 53 - Studio International - May 1965

London Commentary

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3 will form a picture twelve feet deep by sixty-six feet
Robert Clatworthy
Head 111964 long, the design tells in graphic terms the incident at
16¼ in. Eureka Stockade in the nineteenth century when
Bronze
Waddington Galleries striking miners clashed with armed police and blood
flowed. In the actual enamelling process, Sidney Nolan
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Sidney Nolan worked with Robin Banks, a woman enamel list who has
At work on the cartoons for the created many beautiful copper enamels.
enamel panels produced by the
artist and Robin Banks for the Arnold van Praag showing paintings and drawings of
huge mural for the Reserve Bank the Face of Lautrec at the Roland Browse and
of Australia·s new building in
Melbourne Delbanco Gallery has made a vivid reconstruction of
a familiar subject with great plastic elan. Anthony .
Whishaw in his large canvases on the theme of The
Dance Cycle invests movement and the contrast of
light and shade into space with richly uneven returns.
Editions Alecto are showing 'Graphics in the sixties
-an improvisation' at the R.W.S. Galleries during May.
It contains fascinating new prints from American and
British artists, who include Sam Francis, Jim Dine,
Eduardo Paolozzi.
Noemia Guerra, showing at St. Martin's Gallery
from 17th May, is a Brazilian artist working in Paris
who has a talent greater than many included in the
recent Brazilian show at the Royal College of Art.
Her abstractions in blues, reds and greens, applied
like a bird's plumage, suggests the pure atmosphere
of space in subjective associations of colours that are
emotionally moving, reflecting herself.
Latest gallery to open in London and claiming to be
the largest under private direction is the Alwin in
Brook Street; first artists to show are Cyril Mann
with colourful oils of still life and Geoffrey Wickham.■

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