Garry Shead 'The Measuring Artist' photography

Garry Shead 'The Measuring Artist' photographyThe Measuring Artist indulges one of Garry Sheads key motifs the muse. In it, an artist raises his paintbrush to measure a model, languidly nude on a chair. Implicitly present is Erato, the Ancient Greek muse for erotic poetry and hymns, and a haunting figure in Sheads work. In the words of art historian Sasha Grishin, Shead felt himself to be one of the few who consciously sought out Erato. His work constantly dances with the tension between

Condition: Excellent

Thomas Dean came to Australia on the Commonwealth

Image Size: 72 x 57 cm

etching on brown paper

Created through collaboration between Port Jackson Press and the Australian Conservation Foundation in celebration of World Environment Week in June 2004

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Master of Australian modernism

she reminds us that no matter the status of your retina

titled lower left: Then wrought a tomb and slept