Understanding the work of Robert MacPherson
There is all sorts of ways to approach and interact with the present-day art of our instances. It can be practical to get started with an artwork’s physical variety, its size, the components from which it is built, or even how the various things relate to every other.
Brisbane-born painter Robert MacPherson (1937–2021) was a single of Australia’s most considerable artists and identified inspiration in everyday lifetime, which include in the slang words and scientific terms that we generally choose for granted.
Samantha Littley, Curator Australian Art at QAGOMA explores a significantly-loved artwork by MacPherson in our Collection, Mayfair: (Swamp rats) ninety-seven indications for C.P., J.P., B.W., G.W. & R.W. 1994–95, in which MacPherson riffs on the hand-painted indicators that surface on the verges of our nation’s byroads and highways.
