Australian art icon to be featured at Geelong Gallery

The Geelong Gallery will host one of Australia’s most distinguished artists, exclusively showing a comprehensive survey of prints throughout November.

John Nixon – Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints, is an extensive artistic collection from highly respected and influential abstract artist John Nixon (1949-2020).

Nixon is best known for his abstract paintings, eclectic and expansive artistic style and for transforming the understanding of abstraction and its connection with daily life.

His work spans across a series of different creative mediums including printmaking, painting, drawing, collage, photography and experimental music and film.

Drawn from the Nixon’s estate, John Nixon – Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints, will reveal his inventive use of art techniques including simple woodcuts, potato prints, stencils, screenprints, stone lithographs and etchings.

Many of Nixon’s works are also creatively printed onto everyday objects including paper bags and newspapers.

Geelong Gallery director and chief executive officer, Jason Smith said he was delighted to be working towards presenting the diversity, extent and individuality of Nixon’s work.

“The opportunity to present the entire printed oeuvre of John Nixon is art historically important, not only for our understanding of this vital aspect of John’s practice, but in the exhibition history of Geelong Gallery.”

The exhibition will be presented in collaboration with an external curatorial team of Nixon’s wife Sue Cramer, his daughter Emma Nixon and print publisher Trent Walter who worked closely with Nixon.

Nixon was the recipient of the Geelong Gallery’s Geelong Contemporary Arts Prize in 1995 and has had his works exhibited both in Australia and internationally.

The exhibition will run from November 18 to March 11, 2024.

For more, head to www.geelonggallery.org.au/