Lawsons, Sydney, 13/2/20, lot 572
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Janet Dawson
Winter Sunset, Nos 1-6, 1991
pastel on paper (suite of six)
25.00 x 31.50
all signed, titled and dated on labels on reverse (missing label for No 4)
Provenance:
Exhibited:
The Medium Pastel, David Jones Art Gallery, 26 September - 19 October 1991 (alongside James Gleeson and Kristin Headlam)
Literature & references:
Deborah Clark, The Drawings of Janet Dawson, National Gallery of Victoria, 22 June - 11 August, 1996,
exhibition catalogue; Christine France, Deborah Edwards, Michael Boddy, Janet Dawson Survey 1953-2006, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 2006.
Note:
After leaving Sydney in the late 1960s and settling in Binalong NSW in 1974, via some time in Tasmania, Dawson moved to a more remote property at Balgalal Creek and established the Bugle Press with her husband Michael Boddy which, in 1989, began publishing "Kitchen Talk Newsletter", a subscription journal of food, farming and natural history. Dawson's work around this time was often in series and focused on the weather (the moon and the clouds) and home grown produce (a notable series of pastel documents the bloom and wilt of a Red Rock Cabbage). They varied in their degree of abstraction - the works in this group recall the more abstract aspects of her work from the 1970s. Deborah Edwards writes of other works from this period as being "situated at an unusual vantage point for Dawson, who tends to proximate relationships with her subjects... [mapping] a spectacular interplay of light, space and matter through a highly detailed surface of myriad colour strokes..." She writes of the affinity between her landscape paintings, still life drawings, and moon and cloud paintings. (Edwards, op. cit. p.45)
Further works by the Artist
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.