Robert MacPherson: A Proposition to Draw 1973-1978

About the exhibition
This solo exhibition brought together nine extensive drawing series by Brisbane-based artist Robert MacPherson, more commonly known for his work as a painter and Conceptual artist.

A self-taught artist, MacPherson began practising in 1958 and first exhibited paintings in the early ’70s, drawing on his professional experience as a ship painter to inform his late-modernist deconstructions of painting and his investigations into medium specificity.

By the mid-’70s, he was deeply engaged with ideas of the gestural process in painting. The collection of drawings featured in this exhibition—bearing titles such as Strike, Ricochet and Random Fillings—reflects MacPherson’s physical and conceptual interrogation of mark making and its relationship to the traditional representational  qualities of drawing.

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

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^{Image: Robert MacPherson, Charcoal: (Side and Point) 1976}