The Samstag Alumni
The 1993 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Shane Carn |
Robert Cleworth |
Sally Cox |
Mark Hislop
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Jacqueline Hocking |
Nigel Jamieson |
Ruth McDougall |
Sally Mannall
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Ruth Marshall |
Roger Noakes
At their most simple level, Robert Cleworth's accomplished paintings bring sexuality to the absolute foreground, with a seeming celebration of fornication and the carnal marriage of flesh on flesh. The figures shown are always fragments and juxtaposed with benign other elements such as clouds, landscapes and, through the quotation of abstract painting, notions of high art.
Cleworth acknowledges that he is implicated in the subject matter of his
work. However, the intellectual basis of his investigations is an objective
interest in issues of censorship, in feminist discourses on pornography, and in
the phenomenon of societal polarisation around issues of sexuality.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Samstag The First Millenium
| Robert Cleworth Born 1965, Kadina, South Australia |
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| 1993 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship International Student, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, Australian National University, Canberra |
Untitled painting 1992
oil on canvas
55 x 55 cm
© the artist
Robert and Roberta 1992
oil on canvas
167 x 196 cm
© the artist
Untitled painting 1992
oil on canvas
170 x 195 cm
© the artist