|
|
| Curriculum Vitae
|
1953 | Born Cooma, NSW | |
1973 - 1978 | Studied Fine Art, East Sydney Technical College | |
1979 - 1983 | Established studios Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, NSW | |
1984 - 1985 | Lived and worked Sofala, NSW | |
1986 - 1987 | Established studio in Adelaide, SA | |
1988 - 1989 | Redfern, NSW - Painting and sculpting | |
1989 - 1990 | Lived and worked in London | |
1990 - 1994 | Established studio, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW | |
1994 - | LAST Leichhardt, NSW - Painting and sculpting | |
|
Solo Exhibitions
Studio 38, Sydney, NSW
David Reids Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Painters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Studio 41, Canberra, ACT
Painters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Painters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Painters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Cutcliffe Gallery, Sydney, NSW
|
Artist’s Statement
|
During the last ten years I have been profoundly affected by two events on the world stage; one occurrence here in Sydney and a book called Waterloo Creek by Roger Millis.
The world events were the terrible agony that was Sarajevo and the almost unbelievable horror of Rwanda. Sarajevo because I had watched the winter Olympics there not long before it descended into chaos. Rwanda because like everyone else in the world I did not believe such events were possible in the late twentieth century.
The local occurrence was that of the murder of a woman in Sydney.
Roger Millis's book Waterloo Creek is an uncompromising factual account of the conquering and wholesale slaughter of the Aboriginal tribes in NSW.
These four events together seemed to correlate with my ideas of the archetypal moments in peoples lives, the relative nature of truth and the knowledge that the world seemed to be heading back to some kind of medireview existence where tribalism, brute force and crank theories held sway.
I have always worked on human figures as the centerpiece of my work. But in these ten years I have become increasingly fascinated by the gravitational nature of the human body; the ultimate aloneness of the human condition and the essentially personal nature of pain.
In these paintings every individual stands alone with their own demons, their own understanding of truth and ultimately their own pain.
Chris Wyatt July 2001
|
"Things of Beauty and Flame"
26 August to 10 September 2000 Artist’s Statement
|
These paintings arise from an active experience of a place on the upper Shoalhaven River. It is a place that is characterized by river sand, quartz grains that reflect the light, by eucalypts that have white bark and irregular shapes and a scrub vegetation beneath an azure sky. I hope in these paintings to affirm it as a special place. The mystical qualities of the place developed in my imagination that will be apparent in the series of images, the beauty of the wild otherness. Fires; the native vegetation it has been observed, needs the presence of bush fire smoke for seed to renew. We contemplate these natural cycles and our sense of cosmos is awakened, in destruction there exists birth and rebirth. A metaphor for renewal of creativity that could benefit our lives and allow us to reconnect with the beauty of the whole and broader story.
|
|
|
