Wittenoom Gorge
1988
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 90.2 × 121.63 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Perth, Western Australia
- Accession Number
- 2015.245
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Violet Sheno through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2015
© The Estate of Shane Pickett - Gallery location
- Members' Lounge
Level 1, NGV Australia - About this work
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Figurative in its style yet playful in its palette, Wittenoom Gorge by Shane Pickett reveals the artist’s central preoccupation with landscape. The blocks of saturated colour illustrate Pickett’s interest in highlighting the feeling of being in nature through tone and light rather than through realism alone. Pickett, who was also a dancer and an actor, held his first solo exhibition in 1979, and went on to win awards and exhibit widely. His early painting style was strongly influenced by realist painters from south-west Western Australia, before he moved towards abstraction.