Artwork: Cycling Down Anzac Parade 2019

Artist: Richard Blackwell

Medium: kauri pine and automotive paint

Dimensions: 114 x 71 x 4cm

Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2020

Asset no: OLA002063

About the Work

Blackwell works in an innovative way with wood, often using laser cutting technology on ply, then ‘printing’ the work with ink. This work is a departure, and is a deeper cut into a solid wood substrate. In addition he has applied fine spray paint at an angle, resulting in the work altering as you pass by (called a lenticular effect). He notes, ‘My work creates an account of the experience of living and interacting in our current social reality. That experience itself is the result of countless phenomenological interactions and relationships that are mediated by technology, ideology and the concrete structure of the built environment.’

About the Artist

Blackwell is an Australian artist recently relocated to Sydney after years based in Doha, where he was employed as the Assistant Professor, Foundation Woodshop and Digital Lab at VGA Arts in Qatar. He was the recipient of the 2012 Fulbright Scholarship and completed his Masters in Fine Art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA in 2014, after completing his undergraduate degree at the Canberra School of Art, ANU. In 2011 Blackwell exhibited a major series GROTTO, an exhibition in 3 volumes, which was shown in Canberra, Melbourne and Chicago, supported through the Australia Council of the Arts. His work has been collected forArtbank, NAB Collection, The Justin Collection and he has
undertaken several public commissions including the Mayfair Apartments, Canberra; 65 Mary Street, Brisbane and the NEXUS M+A Laneway Project, Brisbane, both undertaken with Urban Art Projects.