This review is by Gertrude Langer in the Courier Mail Brisbane in response to my exhibition of silkscreen prints at the Design Arts Centre in Brisbane in 1968.
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Art review by Gertrude Langer 1968
VISITING Czech painter PAVEL FORMAN has painted a great deal in Australia in quick time.
His exhibition at the Kennigo Street Gallery includes scenes in and around Brisbane, submarine growth and bush fantasies.
It is obvious that there was not enough time to absorb his impressions and rapidity and laxness are often evident.
Here and there something
more expressive emerges,
such as in "Black Forest" and some small abstractions from bush and forest may furnish ideas for subsequent paintings.
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Showing at the Design Arts Centre are very talented silk screen prints by young Canberra printmaker Arthur Wicks at present studying in Paris under a French Government grant. Part of the work is geometric and abstract, part organic and semi-figurative. Among the former is such a vibrant print as "Study in Purple." Among the latter is "Muscular Machine," in which tough linear forms generate a fine energy.
Also exhibiting at the Design Arts Centre is Kenith Willes, of Brisbane. The better works among his oils are red monochromes "From the Top of the Hill" and "Moonlight Junction."
On view at the Queensland Art Gallery is the annual child art exhibition.
Extract from the Courier Mail, Brisbane
March 8th 1968
