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​                                                                 JOHN OGBURN and the STILL LIFE
                                                                           Sun Oct 20 - Sun Nov17

                                                         “Serene Reconciliation and Homecoming”

A review exhibition of John Ogburn’s still-life paintings, including pastels, watercolours and drawings, will open at Harrington Street Gallery, 17 Meagher St, Chippendale, on Sunday 20th October. Paintings selected from four decades of his life will be on show.
Hungarian art historian Dr Emese Revsz writes, “In John Ogburn’s still life paintings the animated impressions of the everyday world of appearances reveal the concentration of a sensitive experience of colour. The spacious interiors are the heralds of a harmonious and homely milieu, transmitters of a comfortable and friendly abode, attributes of serene reconciliation and homecoming.”
She adds, “The teeming life-force of Ogburn’s still lifes is intensified by the vibrant ornamentation of patterned cloths placed on support and surroundings, which resolves the space created by the abundance of objects into a decorative colour design. The vivid arabesques of the crocheted, embroidered, woven draperies envelop the objects as a pulsating field of energy, filling the atmosphere with a seething current of colour.”