Brian McKay : Recent Work - Galerie Düsseldorf ™ | 1 - 29 May 2005 - Click on image to enlarge and for further details
  • Born in Meckering Western Australia in 1926, Brian McKay was the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1988. This exhibition of recent work runs concurrently with a new survey of his work 1954 - 2004 at The Holmes à Court Gallery from 22 April extended to 10 July 2005 - (Brian McKay Floortalk Sunday 8 May - contact Holmes á Court Gallery for details on 9218 4540). In 1990 he was awarded the Australia Council Emeritus Award and in 1991 the Order of Australia Medal for services to Contemporary Art. His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout Australia.
  • Brian McKay's latest works could be characterised as enigmatic. The works are refractive and reflective in all senses of the meaning.
    They are refractive in the way they steal ambient light from their immediate environment and reflective in their ability to instill into the viewer a contemplative and meditative sensibility. The work is iconic and imbued with a deeply cognizant and distilled singularity. This exhibition of recent works comprises 24 works done over a 3 year period from 2003 - 2005 with the vast majority being made in 2004 - 2005. All works are on Aluminium which has been etched, worked by hand and then sealed. Many of the works display ambient colour but have no actual applied colour. In general daylight tends to produce a blue tinge on refractive surfaces and incandescent light a yellow tinge. In low light conditions these works emit a cooler white glow often changing negative space into positive and vice versa. Where colour has been added, artist's oils or automotive enamel have been used. His is the etched 'handwerk' of an artist who has worked methodically and resolutely all his life and at an age when many artists are happy to float he is still working the harder reductive route
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