Trevor Vickers
Trevor Vickers is one of the most highly regarded artists currently working in Western Australia. His five-decade career spans the seminal 1968 exhibition 'The Field' at the National Gallery of Victoria; active participation in Melbourne’s avant-garde art scene in the 1960s and 70s; practice development in France and England in the 1980s and 90s; and the foundation of artist-run-initiative Art Collective WA in 2013.
“I use geometric forms in my paintings because we automatically start to “read” the mathematical or non-literal visual possibilities. This creates a two-way action between the painting and the viewer, whose individual life experience combined with the artist’s production set off a sort of visual array.
It is in this two-way action between the painting and the observer that we realize the painting changing is a sort of agreement between the artist, whose production triggered the visual possibilities, and the attention of the viewer, able to take pleasure in the activity of one’s own mind".”
Trevor Vickers is one of the most highly regarded artists currently working in Western Australia. His five-decade career spans the seminal 1968 exhibition 'The Field' at the National Gallery of Victoria; active participation in Melbourne’s avant-garde art scene in the 1960s and 70s; practice development in France and England in the 1980s and 90s; and the foundation of artist-run-initiative Art Collective WA in 2013.
“I use geometric forms in my paintings because we automatically start to “read” the mathematical or non-literal visual possibilities. This creates a two-way action between the painting and the viewer, whose individual life experience combined with the artist’s production set off a sort of visual array.
It is in this two-way action between the painting and the observer that we realize the painting changing is a sort of agreement between the artist, whose production triggered the visual possibilities, and the attention of the viewer, able to take pleasure in the activity of one’s own mind".”
Trevor Vickers is one of the most highly regarded artists currently working in Western Australia. His five-decade career spans the seminal 1968 exhibition 'The Field' at the National Gallery of Victoria; active participation in Melbourne’s avant-garde art scene in the 1960s and 70s; practice development in France and England in the 1980s and 90s; and the foundation of artist-run-initiative Art Collective WA in 2013.
“I use geometric forms in my paintings because we automatically start to “read” the mathematical or non-literal visual possibilities. This creates a two-way action between the painting and the viewer, whose individual life experience combined with the artist’s production set off a sort of visual array.
It is in this two-way action between the painting and the observer that we realize the painting changing is a sort of agreement between the artist, whose production triggered the visual possibilities, and the attention of the viewer, able to take pleasure in the activity of one’s own mind".”