Arthur Wicks Australian artist

painted sculptural works
image	details	general commentary	artist's running commentary
Early Painted Shaped Works
	Title: Thrust medium: acrylic on canvas, stretched and shaped over wooden structure 1968 102 x 102 x 41 cm	These are also listed and described in the Virtual Gallery Wing devoted to Abstract Paintings & Shaped Canvases.
	Title: Hinge medium: acrylic on canvas, shaped over wooden structure 1968 152 x 76 x 20 cm
	Title: Fly Away Jack medium: acrylic on canvas 1969 850 x 484 cm
	Title: Vortex medium: acrylic on canvas, stretched over wooden structure 1968 91 x 71 x 66 cm
	Title: Slant medium: acrylic on canvas, shaped over wooden structure 1968 249 x 135 x 36 cm	For more images clicking HERE will take you to the Geometric and Abstract painting wing; specifically .
St Margaret's Church installations, Downer, Canberra Painted Sculptural Works 1968, 1969
	Title: Emmanuel medium: synthetic latex paint on board December, 1968 693 x 269 x 269 cm	The wooden work decayed and was destroyed many decades ago. The original idea now exists as a small maquette complete with a figure to provide the original sense of scale. Maquette size: 310 x 220 x 220 cm	In both these works gravity is one of the big issues that needs to be encountered and resolved. Sculptures invariably encountered this force. Works in situ are often counter weighted with systems that are hidden from view, creating a sense of vertigo and unease from the viewer. In the case of these two maquettes and the figure, lead has been used as a counterweight to defy the influence of gravity.
	Title: Cross of Christ medium: painted fibreglass March 1969 6.4 x 2.4 x 1.8m	The original fibreglass work was destroyed many decades ago. The original idea now exists as a small maquette complete with a figure to provide the original sense of scale. Maquette size: 310 x 220 x 220 cm
Solstice Altarpiece and the Secret Landing Place
	Title: Secret Landing Strip Materials: wood, oil paint on canvas and glued canvas sections, light bulb and shade. 1988 Dimensions: 130 x 106 x 62cm Total height (with legs): 213cm	Exhibited: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery(Solostice Altarpiece), 1986 The Performance Space, Cleverland St, Sydney, 1986 Sydney Biennale 1990 WWAG 2020 (the Solstice Altarpiece). For the 1990 Sydney Biennale the two sections, viz the Secret Landing Place and the Solstice Altarpiece were installed one and a half metres apart facing one another. In the intervening space a large bulb and lampshade was suspended. The bulb gradually increased from zero to maximum luminance over a period of several minutes and then dimmed to back to zero luminence again. This pulse was repeated indefinitely or until the power was switched off.	Extract from David Hansen's essay accompanying the Sydney Biennale exhibit. ...... Arthur Wicks lives in the country city of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and his sculptural assemblages are clearly "from the sticks". In Secret Landing Strip (1988), the dancing verticals are ringbarked trees, or the animal bones found in the paddocks, while its painted backdrop and table top suggests the shadows of the bush, eroding stock tracks, river systems. Wicks' thin, rickety constructions of uncoordinated found objects can even stand (shakily) as metaphors for the predicaments of rural Australia, for the fragile ecology of a greatly distubed environment, for the precarious economics of primary production. David Hansen, 1989 "Art is Easy" Catalogue of the 8th Sydney Biennale1990. To read full article click HERE John McDonald's response to this work in the Sydney Biennale: Arthur Wicks has also been unusually subtle. Spend a few minutes in front of his two installations and you will notice the light beginning to change. This must be a reference to his interest in the solstice which, apart from cosmological aspects, the dictionary defines as "a turning point." To read the full text vlick HERE
2 images click to start	Title: Solstice Altarpiece Materials: wood, oil paint on canvas and glued canvas sections, light bulb and shade. Basically mixed media. 1986 Dimensions: 230 x 160 x 100 cm Total height (with legs): 231cm
slide show of 8 images click to start	Secret Landing Strip Materials: wood, oil paint on canvas and glued canvas sections, light bulb and shade. Used in a private performance. To view a slide show iif that work click the thumb image to start.

WEST Gallerie Dusseldorf, Perth September - October, 1989
	Installation view Solo Antipodean, drawing and Transformer sculpture Drawings: mixed media on polyester canvas 308 x 320 cm, and 91 x 180 cm Sculpture: oil on wood 220 x 180 x 108 cm September - October, 1989	catalogue list of works	The works in this exhibition were freighted to Perth. Included was a group of large pencil and charcoal drawings on thin plasticised canvas sheet. The images on these sheets resembled projected images of the large Antipodean is. Several of the three-dimensional transformer objects were included in the installed exhibition. The spatial relationship between the flat drawings and the objects created their own tension. Many of the works in the exhibition "West" contain naturally occurring earths that the artist collected in Western Australia in 1987. To visit the 2 dimensional Transformers, click HERE. To visit the 3 Dimensional Transformers, click HERE.
	Solo Antipodean Media: mixed media on polyester canvas 308 x 320 cm 1989	Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth
	Rocking Yellow Hill at Wilgie Mia (Western Australia) Media: oil on wood/lead 18 8 x 112 x 80 cm 1989	Note that naturally occurring earths - the yellow ochre in particular - collected in Western Australia in 1987, were used specifically in this work.

Other Shapes Objects and Surfaces

	Title: Relic from the Observatory (Hamburg), Tent Skin and Pole Star (note page) oil, clay on linen 1985 Dimensions: 155 x 134 cm	Collection: Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery
	Title: Rainbow Relic oil, clay, compass on linen 1985 Dimensions: 106 x 81 cm

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