Landscapes Real, Imagined and Radical

The Geeveston Art Show is delighted to present the first workshop in our Artist Development Programme - proudly sponsored by the Huon Valley Community Bank. 

Thanks to Bendigo's generous sponsorship, all the workshops in our programme are FREE OF CHARGE to participants throughout the Art Show!

Landscapes - Real, Imagined and Radical

A workshop with Robert Jackson

Landscape painting is one of the major themes of Art: Impressionism, Dutch 16th Century Art, The Barbizon School, Chinese Art since the 11th Century, en plein air painting, and Australia’s Angry Penguins, to name but a few movements, have all revolved around the realistic depiction of the natural world. Which raises the questions - What is
the natural world? What is real?

Landscape painting has often sought to depict scenes of natural beauty and provide us with an idealised conception of the world, and provide us with memories of places we have loved in the past.

The “natural” world of the 21st century is, amongst other things: An Arcadian playground for the privileged (i.e the idyllic seascape from the deck of my beach house), A blighted wasteland ravaged by war, industry and over- population, A backdrop for militant activism (Takyana, Sea Shepherd, Greta Thunberg etc), Or land that was once there for all, gradually being usurped into private property for corporate exploitation.

In this workshop we will consider all of these aspects of landscape and more. We will provide some paper and drawing materials, but please feel free to bring your own medium(s) of choice.

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Robert Jackson is a multi-skilled musician, performer and visual artist who lives in the Huon Valley after re-locating from Melbourne in 2019. He has been active since the 1980s.
Robert studied Linguistics at Latrobe University, Composition at the Victorian College of the Arts, and has undertaken extensive study and practice in the art of improvisation.
As a visual artist, his recent work has focused on a distillation of landscape into its distinctive elements to examine the concept of identity and place. What makes “Here”,
here? What makes a place distinctive? He attempts to bring the same investigation into his music. He has produced many artworks for public and private clients. He has had many
solo exhibitions and is an award-winning muralist. His work is represented in public and private collections in Australia, USA and Europe, and he has held numerous Artist-in-
Residencies.

He has played in a multitude of Rock, Jazz and Street Theatre bands and been MD/Composer for Circus, Film & Theatre. He performs regularly in Tasmania with The Chord
on Bleus, The Lightwood Bottom Blues Club, and is a founding member of the Lutruwita Art Orchestra.