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Delicately
rendered, the painterly forms presented by Margaret Ackland possess a quality
of movement suggestive of the ethereal. With an extensive career founded
in the disciplines of portraiture and still life painting Margaret Ackland has
more recently chosen to focus her attention on the suggestive quality of fabric
met with light. Margaret states of her practice 'My fascination is with
the world of objects, especially those things we discard or overlook. I am motivated
by the passing of time in the life of a family and the traces left behind in the
clothing we once wore.' Margaret Ackland is represented in a range of
national collections including Artbank, the Holmes a Court Collection and Deakin
University. She has won and been a five time finalist in the Portia Geach Portrait
Prize, a Blake Prize finalist and has had her work featured in Italian Vogue and
on ABC TV's Compass series. 'Ackland's
works bring to mind the touch of familiar materials: cool silk slips, stiff white
shirts, the rustle of the wedding dress, the crinkle of white tissue, the soft
gasp of the drycleaners bag. The clothes we inhabit take on something of our shape
and form, a trace of us, and in so doing are no longer mass produced items but
are gradually moulded to reflect qualities of their owners.' Isobel
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Waltz 180 x 150cm oil on linen | |
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