Across the Stage
May 19 - June 12, 2006

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At Close Range
41 x 41 cms
Across the Stage
105 x 105 cms
Curtain Fall
90 x 120 cms
Ken has just advised me that a portrait of his (the sitter being John Kinsella) has been accepted into the Edith Cowan University, WA Art Collection. This is highly prestigous for Ken and illustrates his acceptance as a professional artist nationally.

John Kinsella is a Publisher/Poet and Professor at Cambridge University, England; Kenyon University, Ohio USA and Edith Cowan University, WA.

STOP PRESS.....

As a preface for Ken's exhibition titled 'Across the Stage' opening 19th May at 6pm, respected international and national Artist/Sculptor, Painter and Lecturer Bert Flugelman (now in his 83rd year) has kindly written a background on Ken's painting (see below). Bert is held in high esteem and is represented in the Australian National Gallery and regional galleries within Australia.

Island Stretch
80 x 200 cms

80 Mais
110 x 170 cms

Last Stage
80 x 200 cms
"To write an essay about Ken Johnson's work does not allow one to speak, as one normally would, about a coherent style, a linear development, an orderly progression in the unfolding of a considerable talent.

Johnson has been drawing, painting, collecting, building, investigating and exploring from an early age. He has a voracious appetite for sensations and experiences. Coupled with great drive and prodigous energy his investigations have led him to all corners of the globe over the last thirty years.

His work has been influenced stylistically by each culture and produced bodies of work which are clearly indebted to this culture. This is an important learning strategy. Each time, almost imperceptably, his work has taken on a new richness and has extended his ability to deal with the cnetral theme of his work, the Australian landscape. The strategy of having multiple picture planes, side by side, slightly out of register introduce a very important element into Johnsons paintings. He has managed to insert a time element into these paintings, a reference to film frames which is very persuasive and confidently places these images in the presence.

Anvil
37 x 75 cms

Any Road
60 x 60 cms

Boulder Focus
41 x 41 cms
Ken Johnson has an enormously acute eye, he picks up nuances of change and subtleties of mood and colour with certainty of touch that makes him one of the most important painters, with a particular flair for the outback of Australia.

Sculpture is also an important way of working for this versatile artist. He has worked in a variety of mediums, most notably his stone carvings of figures and heads. He shows the same energy and versatility in this area as he does in his paintings. It all seems to stem from this exuberance to make, to come to grips with the essence of the experience and to make it manifest in the world. This talent for making is extended into building his own houses and studios and garden walls and on and on, peopling the landscape with his sculptures and creating a world which is truly his own."

Bert Flugelman 2006

Choices
100 x 85 cms

Impact
37 x 75 cms

In the Balance
105 x 105 cms

Natural Course
40 x 79 cms

Tapir Sign
85 x 100 cms

Red Wall
80 x 200 cms

The Abyss
120 x 120 cms

T Seal
140 x 120 cms

Monocle II
70 x 200 cms

Opaque
80 x 130 cms

New Moves
100 x 85 cms

Low Light
80 x 130 cms
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