GRAHAM LANG, The Epiphany of St Francis, 2015, oil on card, 120 x 76 cm
Graham Lang winner of the Griffith Review Novella Competition 2016!
Despard Gallery congratulates Graham Lang, winner of the prestigious Novella Project IV prize with his book: A Fulcrum of Infinities.
Graham Lang was born in Zimbabwe and migrated to Australia in 1990. An MFA graduate from Rhodes University, South Africa, he also holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle where he taught art for twenty years before moving to Tasmania in 2011. His career as a painter and sculptor spans four decades during which he has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas and taken up several artist residencies. Since leaving academe, his art has tended toward a more intuitive approach, exploring a diverse array of subjects, many derived from his literary interests.
Graham has forged a significant career as a writer, exploring associated themes of land and identity in three novels, Clouds like Black Dogs (2003), Place of Birth (2006) and Lettah’s Gift (2011) and the novella, A Fulcrum of Infinities (2016), which won this year’s prestigious Griffith Review Novella Competition.
A Fulcrum of Infinities is also the title of Graham’s second solo exhibition at Despard, opening Wednesday 31 August 2016.
” The title of this exhibition alludes to a perplexing conundrum: that there exists in every living thing an internal physical infinity as endless as that existing externally. This idea grew some years ago after a near-fatal illness and seems to have been the underlying force behind a second theme that attempts to evoke the precarious limbo between existence and extinction. It’s also a good way of saying that with art the possibilities are endless.” Graham Lang, July 2016
NOW SHOWING
Endangered | Rodney Pople | 6 July – 31 July 2016 |
UP COMING
The Uncanny Valley | Jenny Orchard and Mish Meijers | opening Wednesday 3 August 5.30pm – 28 August |
A Fulcrum of Infinities | Graham Lang | opening Wednesday 31 August 5.30pm – 25 September |
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