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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.

	Please select an artist >	Francis Bacon Harold Cazneaux Grace Cossington Smith Salvador Dalí Edgar Degas Rosalie Gascoigne	James Gleeson Antony Gormley Bill Henson Tim Johnson Anish Kapoor Anselm Kiefer	Robert Klippel Rosemary Laing Henri Matisse Sidney Nolan Pablo Picasso Tom Roberts	Doris Salcedo Ricky Swallow Hossein Valamanesh Brett Whiteley

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Ricky Swallow (Australia, b.1974)
Killing Time 2003-04
© Ricky Swallow
Purchased with funds provided by the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund and the Contemporary Collection Benefactors' Program 2004

Syllabus link: Frames: Cultural

If our civilisation were turned upside down and subsequently this gallery
were excavated, what would the remnants reveal? Would the forms… prove
that the subject was evolving, devolving or just coming around again?

artists’ quotes:ARTEXPRESS and the visual arts syllabus

artists’ quotes:
ARTEXPRESS and the visual arts syllabus