Publication Details Paperback, 21 x 21 cm, 42 pages, 39 images. ISBN: 978-0-6453401-1-2
Author and/or Editor name/s Sam Beard
Author and/or Editor bio/s Sam Beard is based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia, and contributes to various arts publications and journals. Most recently, he has written essays for catalogues of work by Susan Ecker, an accomplished painter from New York now based in regional WA. Ecker and Beard continue collaborating on projects. Beard has worked with the Lester Prize, Australian Museums and Galleries Association, and numerous regional art galleries in WA. He is a founding editor of Guan Kan Journal, developed with support from the University of Western Australia. He believes great writing on art fuels curiosity, and aspires to this in his work.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Self published exhibition catalogue, supported by the DLGSC, WA Gov
Abstract Subject:Studio is the latest exhibition of work by Susan Ecker. As always, she is a keen observer of the spaces around her. This work explores the studios of artists in some thirty paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. The artist’s work bares traces of its place of creation. This becomes more apparent when the studio is the subject. To Susan Ecker, the studio is a place of the mind, deeply intuitive to the nature of painting and, more broadly, any creative work. Rarely is one granted candid access to these spaces. Susan Ecker offers this unique glimpse of the contents, context and idiosyncrasies of the studio in this compelling exhibition. This publication includes full colour reproductions of Ecker’s work, along with an extensive essay by Sam Beard on aspects of Ecker’s work, life and this particular series paintings.
This catalogue is proudly supported by a grant from the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
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