The Samstag Alumni
The 1999 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Peter Alwast | Stephen Bram | Kristian Burford | Nicholas Folland | Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren
Everything, yes, everything in a Paul Hoban "paint skin" is levelled to a surface of phenomenological and semiotic observation. Think of an ancient mapping of a central nervous system, a hide that records the origins of the world. Think palimpsest and pentimento. Hoban retrieves the raspy mumblings of shaman chants, once erased by eighteenth-century analysis, now muffled by vogue desires and noisy trash.
As the non-official '99 Samstag elder, Hoban reminds us of the visionary lineage of the "outsider" and the cultural nomad in "high" art - Beuys and Pollock - and, in so-called "low" art - Aboriginal symbolic life. Hoban may wish to route his Samstag Scholarship to Los Angeles, home to the plastic-bodied, sushi-loving, cha-cha mamma of pop culture and the Yaqui Indians. One can only imagine his sunny Yede, inspired by Yoruban religion, reworked with rollerblades, chopsticks and tortillas.
M.A. Greenstein
from her Samstag catalogue essay;
Back to the Future - From Wry to Rave
| Paul Hoban Born 1954, Cowra, New South Wales |
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| 1999 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship Post Experience Program, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 1994 | Master of Arts (Visual Arts), South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1976 | Diploma in Fine Art, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide |
Proof 1998
acrylic, mixed media and resin skin on canvas
145 x 101 cm
© the artist
Yede 1998
acrylic, mixed media and resin skin on canvas
115 x 80 cm
© the artist