surveys two decades of John Sheehan’s paintings. The exhibition is a selection of works from his early days at art school (1991-1993) when he studied under Phillip Hunter, Victor Majzner and Ian Parry, through to some of his most recent pictures (2012). The landscape has always supplied Sheehan with a framework that facilitates the search for visual meaning and yet his work resists genre classification. Sheehan seems to rejoice in unconventional juxtapositions, and in doing so generates a fresh originality that can so easily be lost in painting that uses the landscape as its point of departure.
Presented by the City of Darebin as part of the artist spotlight series at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
John Sheehan
Twilight Trees 2010
oil on panel
30.5 x 40.5cm
John SheehanAbstract landscape 1991
oil on canvas
50.0 x 60.0cm
John SheehanTreescape (Park Orchards) 1995
oil on panel
90.0 x 120.0cm
John SheehanSuburban Nocturne 2012
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John Sheehan
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oil on linen
140.0 x 200.0
John SheehanLone Tree 2010
watercolour
14.0 x 19.0cm
John SheehanChinaman’s Hill X 1995
oil on panel
90.0 x 120.0cm
John SheehanChinaman’s Hill (Red) 2001
oil on panel
39.5 x 59.0cm
John SheehanFirst Light (Chinaman’s Hill) 2001
oil on panel
120.0 x 90.0cm