Renowned Australian artist featured in new exhibition

14 November, 2017

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said the exhibition Elisabeth Cummings; Interior Landscapes featured a range of mediums to interest lovers of all kinds of art.

“Elisabeth Cummings is a highly decorated Australian artist who has been painting, printing and drawing for over six decades,” Cr Kidd said.

“This retrospective exhibition will feature works from throughout her career including etchings, ceramics, and subjects drawn from still life, interiors and landscapes as well as prints.”

Orange City Council’s Services Policy Committee Chair Kevin Duffy said the Elisabeth Cummings exhibition was renowned throughout Australia.

“This is a significant coup for the Orange Regional Gallery,” Cr Kidd said.

“Time and again the Orange Regional Gallery is securing big names and highly sought-after exhibitions in a competitive environment.

“This is excellent for Orange residents who have the opportunity to see these fantastic exhibitions without travelling elsewhere.

“It’s great because people travel here instead.”

Gallery Director Brad Hammond said Cummings’ absorption of a wide range of influences had developed her unique and distinctive style.

“After winning the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship, Elisabeth Cummings studied abroad for a decade in Italy and France in the 1960s,” Mr Hammond said.

“She has been influenced by the European work of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, the teaching of Oskar Kokoschka, the paintings of Ian Fairweather and Australian Aboriginal art.

“The exhibition includes some of her finest paintings of remote and beautiful places in Australia – Arnhem Land, the Pilbara, Lake Mungo, the Flinders Ranges, the Kimberleys and the edge of the Simpson Desert.”

The exhibition with be opened by the curator Sioux Garside on Friday 17 November 2017 at 6 for 6.30pm.

Sioux will also present a floor talk at 5.30pm prior to the opening.

INSTALLATION: Interior landscapes is installed.