Jan Palethorpe 'List of Works' expressionism

Jan Palethorpe 'List of Works' expressionismA puzzle to be decoded, Jan Palenthropes List of Works is a work in three parts. On one side of a discarded etching lies a list of works from two of Palenthropes series, one about endangered Victorian and New South Wales insects and the other about Easter Island. On the etchings verso is an envelope that holds one of the works cited, in this case Reflection (1986). Poetic and thought provoking, List of Works raises ideas around waste, recycling and

emotional and imagined than we realize

Aboriginal history and local ecology

two sisters rest together

'Repose' 1994

reproduced in an unnatural technicolour palette

he challenged a committee member to a duel when the Royal Art Society rejected a student’s work - needless to say

Charles Blackman escaped Australia for Paris

It captures a girl cradling her doll on a rocking chair

graciously

he is a romantic myth

Image Size: 100 x 70 cm

which itself is a play on Leonardo DaVinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’