Clinch’s paintings of industrial landscapes and docklands, modest Victorian terraces, inner city laneways, and distant city skylines are imbued with compelling narratives. They arrest with their drama, fascinate with their intense observation and glow with the opalescence of an almost forgotten medium – egg tempera. We see poetry and disquiet, sentimentality and humour, silence and protest.
The 30 year survey of Clinch’s art will include many of his well-known works, including Canary Yellow (1994), with its startling steam of yellow paint, spilt down a rendered-concrete facade, and The Grand Reading Room (1998).
Art Gallery of Ballarat
13 July to 8 September, 2013
Victoria
Fanfare for the Common Man, 2003, egg tempera on panel, 107 x 105cm
Private collection
