The Samstag Alumni
The 1994 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Lynne Barwick | Michele Beevors | Matthew Calvert | ADS Donaldson | Sarah Lindner | Anne Ooms | Robyn Stacey | Carl Sutherland | Paul Uhlmann | Anne Wallace
The formal conventions evident in ADS Donaldson's monochromatic, non-objective painting, might seem at first viewing to identify themselves as historically-bound, a mere restatement of familiar modernist tenet.
However, Donaldson's objects, though cognizant of their relativities, confront assumption through their very obviousness. Their capabilities and meanings are independent, resistant and elusive. These objects, quietly proffered, yet dynamic with tension, aspire to an original space of meaning and contemporaneity. This space is freshly contingent - its transgressive capacity manifest - challenging complacent perception.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Chaos in Heavean
| ADS Donaldson Born 1961, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| 1993 |
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts
Scholarship International Student, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1988 | Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney |
The Artist in Yugoslavia 1990
artist postcard, courtesy of Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
© the artist