Gordon Shepherdson

⁣Artist Profile have published online Louise Martin-Chew’s 2018 feature on Gordon Shepherdson (1934 – 2019) as a tribute to the artist ⁣.⁣ VALE Gordon Shepherdson ⁣.⁣ ⁣‘His sensitivity and quiet introversion pervades each painting. Each one represented ‘hunks of me’, intended for an ‘audience of one’ he once said…’ extract from Louise Martin-Chew for Artist…

⁣⁣Gordon Shepherdson ‘one of the major artists of Australia’s figurative tradition’* passed away on the 18th of July 2019⁣ ⁣⁣.⁣ ⁣⁣Gordon Shepherdson ‘A small survey of recent work’ was the first solo exhibition held at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2015. A painter’s painter, it is wonderful that Gordon’s images, from the powerful to the subdued,…

⁣‘The ‘St Stephen’ paintings of the late 1980s provided the artist with a motif which allowed a personal vision to merge with an event of historical and mythical significance. These works are some of the very few examples of narrative painting by Shepherdson’ extract from David Burnett’s catalogue essay for ‘Marks + Moments: Paintings by…