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                                                                         Other Motifs - The Search for Meaning
                                                                                 JOHN OGBURN (1925-2010)

‘Other Motifs’ is an exhibition of paintings and drawings of less familiar, more unusual motifs selected from the life-work of late Sydney artist John Ogburn.

It includes some atypical subject matter which Ogburn explored from time to time as well as various  examples from his earlier works which can often be of a more interior, sometimes almost surrealist automation, and at other times of a highly symbolic or personal iconography, while his Bunyip series explored an Australian mythology.

This exhibition reveals Ogburn’s extensive search for a meaningful approach to painting within the Western tradition.
In his maturity, and after considerable discernment, Ogburn made the then unfashionable choice  to embrace seeing through the motifs of landscape, still life and the nude, all of which we have come to identify with him and his vibrant colourist art.

The artist’s style changed and developed over his lifetime but, as he said in 1999, “I have not been required to contradict or disown my approach at any particular time. “

                                                                      Sunday 8 October   – Sunday 5 November