Nobby is a favourite family friend of Stamp Interiors, and his latest exhibition has got everyone in a tizz. 'Grey Matters' (represented by Woodbine Art) comprise twelve translucent works in wax and tracing paper assembled over a period of two and a half years.
Many artists contemplate how ideas form in our consciousness, where do they come from?
In Nobby's own words - 'From my own experience, memories of the dramatic awakening of my sensibility in childhood dominated my later development - for better or for worse. My creative essence commenced at the age of seven: I was taken to the theatre and it was the magic moments after the curtain rose that I became aware of conscious being and another world beyond.
Many, many years later, in this world beyond, I am mindful of Vladimir Tatlin’s maxim ‘the form is inherent in the material’ and my very own open circuit mantra; “CONCEPT indicates MEDIUM which determines PROCESS which generates FORM which refines CONCEPT” etc. Meditating on the maxim, the mantra and the formative memory, the image of each work would appear - though sometimes only after weeks of trawling after red herrings.'
The works are theatrical. Intense thought and labour behind the surface bring an apparently simple production to your attention. They are a formal drama on which the surface plays the starring role.
'Grey Matters' runs from March 17th at Woodbine Art in Malmsbury
About Nobby:
Born Naracoorte, South Australia in 1944, he studied Architecture at Melbourne University.
From 1984 to 1996 he painted murals, receiving public and private commissions in Australia and private commissions from Hong Kong, Malaysia and the United States of America.
He held his first Solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1998. He currently resides in Prahran, Melbourne.
