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Douglas Kirwan’s work is concerned with creating a formal space that encourages his preoccupation with the idea of limitlessness.
According to him, he is ‘interested in the notion that patterns can create a sense of expanding forever.’
For this reason he constructs a unit comprising of organic forms that can interlock and be replicated in all directions.
‘I have used a matrix to embed these forms into the structure,’ he says.
‘I believe that a true understanding of this space is as equally important as the objects which inhabit it. I do not directly appropriate patterns, but make my own patterns, invent new forms and rules of play and organisation.
My years of designing wallpaper have given me the tools to do this. I see endless possibilities in this process.’
Regarding his art, he says that his work is always in progress.
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Douglas Kirwan was born in 1945. He studied Fine Art at Caulfield Technical College and RMIT from 1962 to 1967.
He has exhibited many solo shows of paintings and bronze sculptures at various commercial galleries including Pinocotheca, the Charles Nodrum Gallery and Gallery Irascible.
He has been represented in many group exhibitions and touring shows and acquired by galleries, including the Michell Endowment for the National Gallery of Victoria, also the State Library of Victoria, the Baillieu Library and others.
He has also been represented in several artists’ books and also ‘La Mama – The Story of a Theatre’ (Penguin Books) for his theatre designs.
From 1975 to 1983 he was the In-House Wallpaper Designer for Clunies Ross Packman. |
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