twenty / seventy
CASTLEMAINE ART MUSEUM, MARCH - MAY 2024
DOCUMENTARY: CDOC 2024
INTERVIEWS BROADCAST: MAINFM 2024twenty 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.
Roz Avent, Painter
John Wolseley, Artist, Naturalist
Harry Nankin, Photographer
Julie Millowick, Photographer
Juliana Hilton, Painter
Ray Pearce, Potter, Drawing
Jo Lane, Sculptor, Drawing
David Moore, Painter
Prue Venables, Ceramics
Bill Gregory, Painter, Sculptor
Abbie Heathcote, Painter
Phil Elson, Potter
Deirdre Outhred, Painter, Printmaker
Geoff Hocking, Painter
Jo Lane, Sculptor, Drawing
Mary Caspar, Painter
Graeme Galloway, Painter
Trefor Prest, Sculptor