Dick Watkins
Exhibitions
Winter/Spring Salon 2023
Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/07/2023 to 30/09/2023
The 'Winter/Spring Salon' will be a rotating and updating group exhibition throughout Winter 2023.... Read More >
Black and White Paintings
Scott Livesey Galleries, 17/02/2022 to 20/02/2022
Humankind’s first mark-making was executed with the obvious tool on hand – charcoal. Thus, it comes as little surprise that we have a hereditary and somewhat unconscious response to the unyielding and almost brutal black marks on Dick Watkins’ works.They are rendered with sweeping monochromatic gestures, the sheer physicality of which belies the artists’ age. Now in his mid-80s, Watkins paints with the energy of a man half his age. But with age comes weight, albeit not without wry humour. The rather demented depiction of the Devil in Satan’s Holiday leaves one wondering, what indeed does Beelzebub do when he takes a brea... Read More >
Autumn Selection
Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/04/2021 to 08/05/2021
A rotating selection of artworks. ... Read More >
Iconic Paintings
Scott Livesey Galleries, 19/04/2018 to 12/05/2018
Watkins’ WunderkammerWhen the high-priest of American modernism, critic Clement Greenberg, visited Australia in the early 1960s he singled out one artist for especial praise: Dick Watkins. In 1968 when Watkins was featured in the ground-breaking exhibition The Field, the then art critic for The Age, Patrick McCaughey declared that in Watkins’ painting, The Mooche, both “the opening of the field and the loosening of the paint promise a view of the future.” It is little wonder that national, state and private museums Australia-wide clamour to secure his works - The National Gallery of Victoria alone holds 21 of his works.Now i... Read More >
