The 'Gibbon' is Gibbon Beach, Bundeena, south of Port Hacking, where the artist stayed in the early 1970's. In New York during the 1960s and early 1970s, many artists adopted acrylic paint - a newly available, plastic based medium - and explored its expansive technical possibilities and wider range of hues. Colour Field painters poured paint and stained unprimed canvas, dramatising paint's mate…

Provenance

Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibitions

Probably David Rankin, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1972 Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2011