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'MY MIS-SPENT YOUTH – BOB DIXON |
| Drawing on his experiences as a young man working on the scallop fleet out of Port Melbourne, Bob Dixon will mount an exhibition of recent works, 'My mis-spent youth', at the Tea Club, Nowra, in July. |
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Dixon has been a practising visual artist for over 20 years. Previous solo exhibitions have included It's in the balance 1996, Ballad of Simmo, 1988 and Primitive Vision, 1985 all at the Berry Art Gallery. He has been involved in many group exhibitions including Earthly Delights and the Bundanon Autumn Festival earlier this year. Dixon's work is represented in private collections both in Australia and in England, Ireland, USA, Denmark. He said the German expressionist painters of the era between the wars have been the main influence on his painting, Kirschner, Nolde, Heckel. Australian influences have been Fairweather, Tucker and Boyd. My mis-spent youth consists of nine paintings, all oil on canvas, with six 100cm x 100cm and three 100cm x 50cm. Dixon said these works spring from the time when he and his friend Jeff took off from Queensland in 1966, both aged 17, to Melbourne where they lived a precarious life. The pair took whatever work they could to survive. This series documents the years '66/'67 and focuses on the people who influenced their lives at the time, both positive and negative. 'Most of the works concern the period when we worked as deckhands on the Ivy Maree, a rundown scallop boat, plying the scallop beds in south western Port Phillip Bay. 'Based in Mornington, we lived on board the boat five days a week and shared times of great adventure and danger amongst the denizens of the docklands. 'These paintings are drawn from my memories of the '60s – the colours, the music and the people,' Dixon said. He is currently beginning work on a series of oil paintings in which he hopes to express his deep feelings for the coastal bushland and sea to the south of Jervis Bay, known as Berwherre. The exhibition runs from July 7-27 with opening night on July 10 at 6pm. All are welcome. |
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Editor: Colleen Duncan |
