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Wildman Country
3-4 May, 2008
Tallarook Mechanics Institute Hall.
Exhibition, book launch, dinner, floor talks and other events.
15 March - 27 April, 2008
Geelong Gallery, Little Malop Street,
Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Ph. 03 5229 3645
19 July - 18 August 2007
Maroondah Art Gallery, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood. Ph. 03 9298
4542
Robert Hollingworth has a rural property just a few minutes walk
from where Henricke Nelsen had his underground hideaway in the 1870s
and after several years of research, Robert has written a
book
about this strange man of the forest.
Hollingworth's
new paintings
are inspired by these wild and rocky ranges and his
story of Henricke Nelsen.
Hollingworth
says, “When Nelsen was living in the ranges, the famous artist Louis
Buvelot just happened to be working on a painting that looked onto
those same hills.
Between Tallarook and Yea,
1880 was the largest
work Buvelot ever produced and it was completed the same month that
Nelsen was captured. Buvelot, to me, represents everything that the
budding European population was aspiring to and Nelsen – the Wildman
– was everything they wanted to eradicate.
“125 years after both these people, my
subject matter comes from the ranges that feature in both their
lives. But I don’t think of my paintings as “landscapes” at all. I’m
not concerned with pictorial European conventions as Buvelot was or
the momentary glimpse of a scene, but more with the idea of lived
experience in the bush – as Nelsen might have known it.”
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