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artists’ quotes:
ARTEXPRESS and the visual arts syllabus

The following quotes by artists from the Gallery's collection provide insights into art-making practice and key content in the Stage 6 Visual Arts Syllabus.

They have been chosen for audiences to consider when viewing ARTEXPRESS, with the aim of enhancing their understanding of individual student artworks on display and the syllabus from which they are derived.
 

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Antonty Gormley - A field for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
collection art gallery of new south wales   Antony Gormley (Englang b. 1950)
A field for the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1989
© Antony Gormley

Syllabus link: Conceptual Framework: artist/artwork/audience

I think it is a communication, but it is a meeting of two lives. It’s a meeting of the expressiveness of me, the artist, and the expressiveness of you, the viewer. And for me the charge comes from that confrontation. It can be a confrontation between the movement of the viewer and the stillness of the object, which in some way is an irreconcilable difference, but also an invitation for the viewer to sense his own body through his moment of stillness.