Andrew Sayers exhibition shows late Australian art curator's landscape paintings
A Canberra gallery exhibits 20 landscape gouaches by Andrew Sayers. He died in 2015.
Andrew Sayers (1957-2015) shaped Australian visual arts for almost three decades, working as a curator, art director, and scholar. He died from pancreatic cancer.
At the National Gallery of Australia, Sayers became curator of Australian drawings. His role grew to include watercolours and colonial paintings.
Sayers led the National Portrait Gallery for a dozen years. He founded it first.
Then he became director of the National Museum of Australia. He began painting seriously only after stepping back from gallery work.
The Barton ArtBox exhibition features 20 small-scale gouache works. They were created in 2014 and 2015.
There is also one 2011 painting called Beach Evening. Gouache, his favourite medium, is a water-based paint.
In Australia, it is sometimes called poster paint. The exhibition runs through October 31.
It is open Friday to Sunday.
- Almost three decades
- Years in art institutions
- 20 gouaches plus one 2011 work
- Paintings in exhibition
- 12 years as director
- Portrait Gallery tenure
- Barton ArtBox, Canberra
- Exhibition location
Why it mattersSayers was a key figure in Australian art institutions. This exhibition shows an artist hidden by his demanding day job.
AustraliaA chance for Australians to see the less-known side of a curator who shaped the nation's major art galleries.
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