Elisabeth Kruger, Cirque, 2008, oil on linen, 122.5 x 153.0 cm. Courtesy the artist and Eva Breuer Art Dealer (Sydney) and Karen Woodbury Gallery (Melbourne). Photographer: Graham Baring.
The work of one of Australia's leading painters, Canberra artist Elisabeth Kruger, will be on exhibition at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery starting Friday. Elisabeth Kruger: On Beauty is a survey exhibition that provides a rare opportunity to view Kruger's work and gain insight into the themes and issues that motivate her art practice. The works display Kruger's recent focus on the human relationship with plant life: specifically the personal and fragile nature of the garden space and its cycle of luscious growth, flower and blossom which leads to decay, decomposition, and then verdant regrowth. Kruger's work is born directly from her garden, where plants are meticulously grown from seed into full flower, arranged or photographed and painstakingly painted in immaculate detail. The paintings are large in scale yet rich with fertile imagery that holds an intensity that transports the viewer. Born in New Caledonia in 1955, Elisabeth Kruger is a graduate of The Australian National University School of Art. In 1989 she was awarded the Moët et Chandon Fellowship and in the following year took up an Arts Council residency at Besozzo, Italy.
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