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
Identity is the principal concern of Mark Hislop, both in a personal sense (he was born a twin), but equally with regard to notions of nationality. Hislop contends that the influential role of landscape in the formation of Australian national identity warrants close attention.
Hislop's paintings present appropriated, classic Australian landscapes,
subordinated to a dichotomous and discordant grid of tachist squares (perhaps
arranged in the form of a deliberately ambiguous modernist cross) which
interrupt the "illusion" of an increasingly diminished, third-degree background
image.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Samstag The First Millenium
| Mark Hislop Born 1962, Cooma, New South Wales |
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| 1993 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK |
| 1987 | Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1986 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
An untitled landscape 1992
graphite and enamel on canvas
170 x 200 cm
© the artist
Caution 1992
graphite and enamel on canvas
170 x 200 cm
© the artist