Printmaker Gallery

Interview with David Larwill and Robyn Berkeley

David Larwill


1956 - 2011

David Larwill was born in 1956 in Ballarat, Victoria. He studied at the Prahran College of Advanced Education and the Preston Institute of Technology. He has been painting in his distinctive style since his earlier years as a founding member of the famous ROAR Studios in Fitzroy. Influenced by movements as diverse as tribal art, aboriginal art, abstracted figuration of the 1940s and 1950s and the naive style of DuBuffet and Art Brut.

David's paintings are controlled and sophisticated and characterised by their simplified forms and overall geometric patterns.

Larwill is now a significant figure in the art world with two recent completely sold out exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney. He has successfully established himself and is maintaining a high profile in a competitive field. David is an artist who has harnessed and refined his emotional desire to put paint on canvas. This has enabled him to produce works motivated by emotion and executed in a mature, considered and polished manner. Larwill's unique mix of simplicity and sophistication will carry him confidently into the future. He has had many solo exhibitions both in Australia and in London and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and in Parliament House, Canberra. Sadly David Larwill passed away in June 2011.

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, ACT
National Gallery of Victoria, Vic.
Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW
Parliament House Art Collection, ACT

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'Blue Ways' - panels made in collaboration with Aesop Garosugil, Seoul.

Part of the process of printmaking is the production of proofs, the prints you make while working on an image. While they are not the finished product they are always printed on 100% cotton paper with high quality inks and so are often beautiful in their own right.

For nearly 10 years I'd been collecting these proofs, thinking that one day there would be a project where they could be used. Then in 2009 an opportunity came to decorate the outside of Australian Print Workshop in Fitzroy.

As I was finishing a man stopped and asked if I would like to paste some of the proofs in his shop. Without asking who he was or which shop I said yes. The man turned out to be the Creative Director of Aesop.

Gertrude Street was my first collaboration with Aesop. Since then I've installed work in Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and now Seoul. It's been great to share my work with new audiences around the world and work with a company that keeps beautiful design at the core of everything it does.

St Kilda Comedy Club is back at the Espy, 24 September 2017

The magical momentum behind the launch of the St Kilda Art Crawl on the 21 Sept. has opened the doors to the Espy's Gershwin room to the cream of Melbourne's comedy community. Supported by Mark Hughes and the Temple of Blues this stellar line-up includes CJ Fortuna, Pommy Johnson, Elliot Goblet, Dave O'Neil, Bob Franklin, Chris Wainhouse, Christine Basil, Michael Shafar, Wayne Deakin and more...
For bookings: trybooking.com

Produced by Kerrie Pacholli © pationpics.com 2017
Filmed and Edited by Andre Le Coz