Exhibition:Wednesday 3rd August - 27th August
Opening:Wednesday 3rd August 6-8pm
Poet and visual artist Luke Beesley has received awards and fellowships from The Australia Council (2005), The Asialink Foundation (2006/7), Arts Queensland (2003), Eleanor Dark Foundation (2004), Arts Victoria (2010), The City of Melbourne (2009), The State Library of Victoria (2010) and The Fellowship of Australian Writers (2007); as well as a number of major public art commissions. His first book of poetry Lemon Shark was published in 2006 and he has two books forthcoming.
Increasingly his poetry and drawing is intermingling, and he has just completed a collection of poetry and drawings called Pencilled Losses, which was assisted by an Arts Development grant from Arts Victoria, and he is working on an artist book of poems and drawings called Seed as part of a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship.
Authors is Beesley first solo exhibition of drawings, and includes a series of pencil and charcoal on paper drawings called Authors completed in 2007/2008; a series of pencil on paper drawings called Common Farm Birds (2009/10); and Pencilled Losses - pencil on paper (2010) drawings from his Arts Victoria assisted manuscript. Many of the drawings comprise fragmented images accompanied by half completed marks of text, creating a blurred place between text, image, the author, handwriting and drawing.
Increasingly his poetry and drawing is intermingling, and he has just completed a collection of poetry and drawings called Pencilled Losses, which was assisted by an Arts Development grant from Arts Victoria, and he is working on an artist book of poems and drawings called Seed as part of a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship.
Authors is Beesley first solo exhibition of drawings, and includes a series of pencil and charcoal on paper drawings called Authors completed in 2007/2008; a series of pencil on paper drawings called Common Farm Birds (2009/10); and Pencilled Losses - pencil on paper (2010) drawings from his Arts Victoria assisted manuscript. Many of the drawings comprise fragmented images accompanied by half completed marks of text, creating a blurred place between text, image, the author, handwriting and drawing.
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