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1. Evelyn Syme, Yallourn Landscape, 1933, Watercolour on paper, 14 x 33 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased with assistance from the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1988.
2. Colin Suggett, The $1000 Chair (kinetic), 1979, Mixed media, 160 x 50 x 88 cm, Colin Suggett Collection, gift of the artist to Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2001. Shown in Gallery 4, Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2020.
3. Detail of Colin Suggett, The $1000 Chair (kinetic), 1979, Mixed media, 160 x 50 x 88 cm, Colin Suggett Collection, gift of the artist to Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2001.
4. ELECTRIC: Selected works from the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, Exhibition documentation, 2020.
5. Detail of Colin Suggett, Beach, 1978, Mixed media, 180 x 75 x 75 cm, Colin Suggett Collection, gift of the artist to Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2001. 6. ELECTRIC: Selected works from the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, Exhibition documentation, 2020. Pictured: (left) A M Wood, Signal Box, Stratford, 1963, Watercolour, 30 x 23 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, (top) Tony Trembath, VR Chair, 1997, Offset print, 21 x 17 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, gift of the artist, 1997, (bottom right) Colin Suggett, Greetings from Electric Valley, 1979, Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper, aluminium strip border, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, gift of Rodney Scherer, 1992.
7. ELECTRIC: Selected works from the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, Exhibition documentation, 2020. Pictured: (left) George Baldessin, Window and Factory Smoke, 1971, Etching and aquatint, 56 x 76 cm (irreg) image, 69 x 89 cm sheet, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, acquired 1973, (right) George Baldessin, City Monuments, 1967, Etching and aquatint, 58 x 50 cm (irreg) image, 70 x 62 cm sheet, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Campbell Hughston Collection, 1974.
8. Nicholas Folland, A job for tomorrow…, 2009, Refrigeration unit, stainless steel bench, chandelier, 150 x 120 x 80 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased 2009. Shown Gallery 4, Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2020.
9. Detail of Nicholas Folland, A job for tomorrow…, 2009, Refrigeration unit, stainless steel bench, chandelier, 150 x 120 x 80 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased 2009. Shown Gallery 4, Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2020.
ELECTRIC
Selected works from the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection
18 July 2020 to 07 February 2021
Gallery 4
This selection of artworks takes the word ‘electric’ and includes artworks about power generation but also includes other ways of thinking about the word ‘electric’.
This playful exhibition includes work by:
George Baldessin, Andrew Cadzow, Nicholas Folland, Kirrily Hammond, Tim Jones, Bruce Latimer, John Peart, Mary MacQueen, Rodney Scherer, Colin Suggett, Peter Serwan, Evelyn Syme, James Taylor, Tony Trembath, Franz Verheesen, A. M. Wood. Some artworks will rotate in and out of the exhibition in early October 2020.
Please note not all works will be on show at any one time.
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