twenty / seventy

CASTLEMAINE ART MUSEUM, MARCH - MAY 2024
DOCUMENTARY: CDOC 2024
INTERVIEWS BROADCAST: MAINFM 2024

twenty portraits of artists over seventy

Photographs: Michael Wolfe

Interviews: Suzanne Donisthorpe

Sound Production: Robert Burke

Saxophones & Clarinets: Robert Burke, Viola: Clare Hall

In the 1970s they were in their 20s and now in the 2020s they’re in their 70s and beyond.

Just what does creativity, character and commitment count for across a career lasting more than 50 years as an artist – and – what does it look like? From this idea twenty seventy came into being.

My own experience of artistic practice and aging is one of becoming more creatively free, that I’m experimenting and exploring themes and approaches with confidence, vitality and energy. Unburdened, to an extent, by fear of failure or maintaining and building a career and reputation.