Friday, April 26, 2019

Artist of the day, April 26: Geoffrey Ricardo, Australian painter, sculptor, printmaking (#677)

Geoffrey Ricardo (1964) is an Australian contemporary visual artist whose work focuses on his sculpture and printmaking practice.

Ricardo was born in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for his Figurative work that centres around a narrative language, Ricardo works primarily in sculpture, printmaking, etching, lithography, & painting. He was the winner of the 2009 Lorne Sculpture Exhibition. He has been a regular artist in residence at the Art Vault Mildura. His paintings, prints and sculptures are represented at the Austrlaian National Gallery in Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Tasmania, the Holmes A'Court Collection in Wetern Australia, and other regional galleries and institutions. His work is also in Many private collections.

Geoffrey Ricardo, printmaker and sculptor, employs aquatinting the entire plate and using a scraper or burnishing tool to reveal an image, usually a parable of human folly. His exhibition, A dark city narrative (2001), revealed large, complex parables of contemporary city life crammed with incident.

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Mr Geoffrey Ricardo

1987, Ark

1990, Kites

1990, The Game Insane

1992, Evolve

1992, Game bag

1992, Land of the Giants

1992, Scarecrow

1992, Shroud

1993, Ballad #11

1993, Ballad Two

1993, Heart

1993, I Live and Expire (Study)

1994, Emblem

1992, Jackass

1994, Love Speaker

1994, Ramshackle

1994, The Elephant Gingham

1995, Nocturne

1996, A Bum Steer

1996, Homage to Atalaya

1996, The Galvanised Sea

1997, 144

1997, Ballad

1997, Senewbald

1997, The Cellular City

1997, The Long Snake

1998, Gymkana

1998, Self portrait

1999,  Untitled

1999, Illuminated City

1999, Love Street

1999, The Urbane Heart

2000, Untitled

2007, Forward backward

2018, The Articulations

Aircraft

Going Home

Hand Coloured

1992, Naturalists

Ramshackle

Scissors-paper

Sprinter's Spell

Three-Headed Man

1007, Veneer Deer

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