Fair-Isle
Robert Clinch
Details
- Artist
- Robert Clinch
- Title
- Fair-Isle
- Year
- 1999
- Medium
- gouache, watercolour and drybrush
- Size
- 81 x 118 cm
- Details
signed lower right: Clinch 1999
- Stock Number
- 213124
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Provenance
The artist
Joseph Brown Gallery, 1999
Sussan Group Collection, Melbourne
Important Australian Art, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 25 August 2008, lot 55
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000
Robert Clinch: Fanfare for the Common Man, Art Gallery of Ballarat 2013 & touring Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW, 2013
Literature
Robert Clinch: Fanfare for the Common Man, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2013, p. 63, illus. p. 70
Further Information
“Clinch’s fascination with brick walls often manifests itself. Fair-Isle 1999 provides a tour-de-force in Hawthorn brick work, its chatty quality sharpening the isolation to the elderly figure seated at the bus stop, knitting. A little investigation unravels the ever so present touch of whimsy. The title is derived from one of the Shetland Islands to the north of the Scottish mainland. Fair Isle is also a traditional knitting technique, its patterns of multiple colours are like those of the Hawthorn bricks. Even Clinch’s model was a lady of Scots name.”
Thomas, D. Robert Clinch: Fanfare for the Common Man, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2013, p.63