Arthur Wicks: Inside/Outside: Forward/Backwards

Main Gallery: 11 December 2009 - 10 January 2010

Arthur Wicks 

Arthur Wicks
Arthur Wicks: Inside/Outside: Forward/Backwards on display in the Main Gallery, 2009-2010


An amazing array of helicopter, chariots and life-size puppets unveils the career of Arthur Wicks in Inside/Outside: Forward/Backwards. Over several decades, Arthur Wicks, Wagga Wagga's resident world-renowned artists extraordinaire, has explored the paradoxes of contemporary life. His prolific output has encompassed painting, printmaking, performance and sculpture - all of which are on display of this survey exhibition, which focuses on several of the key themes that have informed his practice.

Inside/Outside: Forward/Backwards features several of Arthur Wicks' renowned sculptural machines, with a range of vehicles including a helicopter, an armoured car, and a caged cyclist - hand-crafted mechanisms that each imprison a life-cast of the artist himself. A selection of prints and works on paper is also on display, drawn from several decades of the artist's work held in the collection of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.

 

Arthur Wicks No 3 
Arthur Wicks #3 Displacement (for Archimedes) 1980, photographic screenprint
 

www.arthurwicks.com

Catalogue 1

 Catalogue 2


Opening

When: Thursday 17 December 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Where: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Cost:  Free