David Aspden: Paintings 1971 – 1975

About the exhibition
This tightly focused exhibition presented just seven large recent paintings by the Sydney-based artist David Aspden, known for his hard-edge colour field abstractions of the 1960s. Aspden’s work Field 1,1968, was not only featured in the landmark exhibition The Field, which opened the new National Gallery of Victoria  building in St Kilda Road in 1968, but also inspired the title of that exhibition. In the early 1970s, the compositions of Aspden’s works became looser, now featuring torn shapes or patches of colour in a more organic and open style. As such, the period of 1971–75 was to be a pivotal one in the artist’s trajectory. The exhibition included works from Aspden’s Brazil Series—a body of work awarded a Gold Medal at the XI Bienal de São Paulo in 1971.

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^{Image: David Aspden, Brazil Series No. 3 1971, synthetic polymer on canvas, 271 x 244.5 x 4.5 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Gift of the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund, 1985 © Karen Aspden}