Lee Ward 'Mask' earth tones

Lee Ward 'Mask' earth tonesAboriginal artist Lee Wards Mask sees a mask constructed of varying marks dots, dashes, crosses and lines. It is an experiment in tone, depth and pattern, recalling dot painting, graffiti and the cultural and personal masks we don everyday. Ward has worked as an art teacher for adults with disabilities and an illustrator in post war torn Sri Lanka. In 2015 he completed a commission for Shepparton Art Museum a hand drawn mural of vintage cars at the

a multi-eyed dodo

a wellspring of beauty that offers respite from the banality of the everyday

Vic O’Connor was an instrumental member of Melbourne’s progressive social realist group

born in London and residing in Sydney

The stylus does not want to make a curved line due to the nature of the way the Perspex is made… Plexiglass or Perspex determined the low edition of 20 only as the plates were delicate and we could only extract a certain amount of passes under the roller before the drypoint etch flattened out

revealing his mastery over medium

it recalls the mental state unique to travelling

This is the artist’s country”

as he always does

calling on his life throughout Western art

If you are located within Melbourne

they use the figure to describe the human condition