Lionel's Place

Next date: Sunday, 22 December 2024 | 10:00 AM to 02:30 PM

- Lionel’s Place is a Maitland Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition - 

Lionel’s Place showcases more than 140 artworks created by Lionel Lindsay, an artist who honed his skills in etching and wood engraving so finely that by 1927 he was hailed as the most internationally successful Australian printmaker of all time. This exhibition showcases the artist’s etchings, wood engravings and watercolours, works on paper rich in visual texture, and depicting scenes from abroad and closer to home, exotic and domestic animals and birds, and the lushness of gardens, floral abundance and portraiture. 

^{Image at top: Spring (detail), 1936, wood engraving, printed in black ink on paper, donated to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection under the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Max and Nola Tegel in 2016. © the Estate of Lionel Lindsay. By permission of the National Library of Australia.}

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About Lionel Lindsay

Lionel Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria in 1874 and died in Wahroongah, NSW in 1961. Lindsay was one of ten children, five of whom became professional artists - including his younger brother Norman Lindsay. After spending 22 years as a cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers and magazines Lionel Lindsay became a full-time artist. He became a successful and prolific printmaker which funded his passion for his work and travel. 

His extensive travels across Spain, Italy, North Africa and India provided the inspiration for his etchings and watercolours, while his abundant garden at home informed his finely crafted wood engravings of flowers and birds. Lionel Lindsay was an artist who honed his skills in etching and wood engraving so finely that by 1927 he washailed as the most internationally successful Australian printmaker of all time.

The works in the exhibition Lionel’s Place cover his artistic practice from 1910 until 1950 and encompass all the themes that Lindsay explored over his career including: landscapes from abroad; Australian imagery including Sydney streets, laconic swagmen and portraits of literary personalities such as Henry Lawson; mythical and domestic gardens; still life depictions of flowers and fruit and vegetables; and a menagerie of birds and animals.

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Exhibition Feedback

“Lionel’s Place is a fantastic exhibition to introduce a younger generation to the awesomeness that is Lionel Lindsay! His insanely intricate and delicate prints are a joy to inspect up close-they enable the viewer/student to really appreciate the immense concentration and focus used by Lionel to produce his images. Reactions to Lionel’s Place from students have already proved positive, they are in awe of the works beautiful minute detail, something they seldom get a chance to see on a screen!”
^{- Art tutor, Vanessa Evans}

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^{2018 MUSEUMS & GALLERIES NATIONAL AWARDS (MAGNA)}

^{Highly Commended: Temporary or Travelling Exhibition}

^{2018 MUSEUMS AUSTRALASIA MULTIMEDIA & PUBLICATION DESIGN AWARDS (MAPDA)}

^{Winner: Children’s Book}
Highly Commended: Exhibition Branding
Shortlisted: Exhibition Catalogue

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