Elwyn lynn biography

Elwyn Lynn

Elwyn (Jack) Lynn (6 November &#; 22 January ) was an Australian artist, author, art critic and curator.[1][2]

Career

Elwyn Lynn trained as a teacher, and was a schoolmaster in Sydney Secondary schools until (mainly English and history).

Elwyn lynn biography images James Gleeson oral history collection. All rights reserved. The acquisition budget was so small and the ambitions of the institution so large that the curator needed to exercise his judgment with imagination. He was an advocate for the international vision of the Biennale of Sydney.

Lynn was self-taught as an artist.[3]

Lynn was Curator of the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sydney University from to There he built up an international collection, which is now within the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art.

Lynn was an art critic at The Australian for many years. He was author of several books, including one about the artist Sir Sidney Nolan.

Alongside his career as a painter, which started in the mids, Lynn was also an outspoken commentator on the visual arts. In the s and s he edited the Broadsheets of the Contemporary Art Society. He worked as a critic for a number of newspapers, including the Sunday Mirror (), The Bulletin (), Nation (), The Australian () and The Weekend Australian.

In he became Advisory Editor of Art International. For a short time he also edited Art and Australia.[4]

Lynn was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia in He won the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in In , he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Sydney.

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In he received the Emeritus Award from the Australia Council.[3]

The Art

Elwyn Lynn's work was striking, with the use of unconventional painting media and expressive surfaces to construct metaphors for human suffering and endurance. Most of his work was essentially abstract, although a sense of the landscape is often evoked.[3]

Emeritus Professor Peter Pinson noted:

The later work of Lynn maintained his interest in damaged and shredding surfaces, and his frequent and adventurousness use of assemblage elements.

These late works were also marked by an expressionist vehemence and a daring informality.[3]

Prizes

Elywn Lynn won the following prizes:[1]

  • Wynne Prize AGNSW
  • University Of NSW Purchase Prize
  • Trustees' Watercolour Prize AGNSW
  • Awarded Atelier at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
  • Trustees' Watercolour Prize AGNSW
  • Won Blake Prize for Religious Art, Mosman Art Prize and Bathurst Prize

Exhibitions

Elwyn Lynn participated in over group exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Brazil, Indonesia, Poland and Germany.

He had over 50 solo exhibitions in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Cologne (Germany).[1]

He has collections in the following galleries:[1]

Bibliography

  • Elwyn Lynn (). Sidney Nolan: Myth and Imagery.

    London&#;: Macmillan.[6]

  • Elwyn Lynn and Sir Sidney Nolan ().

    Elwyn lynn biography His daughter, Victoria, remembers him telling her that at one time there was only one plate for a meal. In he became Advisory Editor of Art International, at the nexus of contemporary art theory and featuring the most exciting artists living artists. He also had a long association with the College of Fine Arts in Sydney and was a board member for many years. In he was awarded the Blake Prize for what was seen as a radical abstract work, which was really just the start of his personal pathway to abstract form and texture and colour.

    Sidney Nolan - Australia. Sydney&#;: Bay Books. ISBN&#;.[7]

  • Elwyn Lynn (–). Papers of Elwyn Lynn. Unpublished.[4]
  • Elwyn Lynn ().

    Elwyn lynn biography wikipedia Canberra: Nolan Gallery, He understood that the continuing debate about art, especially modern art, was part of his brief as curator. Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan both entered the collection at his instigation. Lynn was a vigorous polemicist for the ideas and art he held dear.

    The art of Robert Juniper. Craftsman House. ISBN&#;.

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