There's a bit of Crawley that's Rottnest for a few weeks: an exhibition at UWA has at least one artwork of the beautiful island.
Guy Grey-Smith's oil on canvas Rottnest is part of Conversations: 100 Artists in the UWA Art Collection.
Is this the greatest Rotto painting? Could be. It's in Snell, of course. It was done 1954-57.
No mention or reproduction of this image on GG-S's Wikipedia entry. He was born in Wagin and won lots of prizes and is regarded as pioneering modernism in WA.
The exhibition is in two parts: half will be on show until September 13; the second portion will be hung September 27 to November 15.
Maybe he'd been eating a Rotto pie with tomato sauce and experienced a coughing fit?
ReplyDeleteOh Paul. Not a fan? You might prefer his 1956 job on Thomson Bay...
ReplyDeleteNo not the greatest in my book. There is a Freo artist by the name of Leon Holmes currently doing some great Rotto oils. I recently purchased a work of his and am captivated by the depth he creates to the water.
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