This exhibition celebrates 100 years since the birth of Australia’s foremost surrealist painter and poet, James Gleeson (1915-2008). Drawn from the Gallery’s own collection of the artist’s work, this exhibition looks at Gleeson’s remarkable legacy through a selection of paintings, drawings and studies for paintings.
Gleeson’s art explores the human condition beyond visible reality, the senses, reason and the conscious mind. Inspired by writers and artists of the surrealist movement, including Salvador Dali and Max Ernst, Gleeson utilised poetry, dreams, mythology and chance elements as material for his work. His late paintings extend his psychological concerns beyond humanism to a cosmic experience of nature in constant evolution.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Until January, 2016
Sydney
The arrival of implacable gifts, 1985
© Gleeson/O’Keefe Foundation
Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
