Monday 31 December 2012

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA ART

Jan Senbergs was born in Latvia in 1939, and arrived in Australia in 1950. He completed an apprenticeship in silk-screen printing and began exhibiting in the early 1960s. In 1966 he held his first exhibition at Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney and later that year was awarded the Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship. In 1973 he represented Australia at the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil, the first of many honours in an illustrious career including a special commission for a large-scale relief-mural for the High Court of Australia in Canberra in 1980, holding the position of member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council from 1984-1987, Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1984-1989 and in 1989 he was appointed the Visiting Professor – Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Boston, USA.

In 1993 a major survey exhibition, Imagined Sites - Imagined Realities was held at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, and he was awarded the William Dobell Drawing Prize by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney the same year. In 2006, a major exhibition surveying his drawing practice was curated by Elizabeth Cross for the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. This exhibition, Jan Senbergs Drawing, toured regional Australia in 2007. In 2008, the Art Gallery of New South Wales hosted the survey exhibition Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter to document Jan's development as an artist over the past 25 years.

Jan Senbergs' work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia and in all state galleries in Australia. Internationally his work is included in the collections of  the National Gallery, Washington D.C; Wadsworth-Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Musuem of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas among others. The book Voyage and Landfall by Patrick McCaughey was published by Melbourne University Press under the Miegunyah imprint.

The large scale, mounted, acrylic on canvas painting is displayed in the central foyer area of the State Library of Victoria and is called "Melbourne 1998-1999". It was presented as a gift to the Library by the Gualtiero-Vaccari Foundation in recognition of the services provided by the State Library of Victoria to the Italian Community of Melbourne.

This post is part of the Monday Mural meme,
and also part of the Mellow Yellow Monday meme.




11 comments:

  1. Interesting history and amazing paintings, Nick, and so are your captures! Thanks for sharing with us today! Again, enjoy the holiday!!

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  2. These will serve an info. guide and its nice also to know part of history.

    Have a prosperous New Year!

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  4. Merry and Happy New Year ...!
    Eko
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  5. Great shots. The murals are fantastic.
    Happy New Year!

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  6. Such details. Happy New Year!

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  7. Fascinating photography ~ love libraries! ^_^

    (A Creative Harbor aka ArtMuseDog and Carol ^_^)

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  8. I like the dynamism of this painting. He conveys the movement and hustle and bustle of your urban center. And reminds us that great cities usually develop along great rivers. Happy New Year, Nick and thanks for your continued participation in Monday Mural.

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  9. How wonderful. Happy New Year!

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