Depth of Field

Dates:
21 May – 19 July 2003

Artists:
A.M.E. Bale, Clarice Beckett, Chris Bond, Andrew Browne, Emanuel Phillips Fox, Kirrily Hammond, Carl Hampel, Louise Hearman, Matthew Johnson, Helen Kennedy, Chris Langlois, Tony Lloyd, Joanna Logue, Frederick McCubbin, W.B. McInnes, Amanda Marburg, Max Meldrum, Damian Moss, Josephine Muntz-Adams, John Ford Paterson, Tom Roberts, Kate Stevens, Arthur Streeton, Aida Tomescu, Philip Wolfhagen

Curators:
Karen Hall and Louise Tegart

Location:
Monash University Museum of Art
Ground Floor, Building 55
Monash University, Clayton Campus

About the exhibition
Travelling from the Shepparton Art Gallery, Depth of Field presented an extensive collection of historic and contemporary landscape paintings, acknowledging the genre’s prevalence in Australian art. Works ranged from the literal to the non-representational, but all showed a particular engagement with the influence of photography on painting. Many featured artists used photographs as reference or source material, while others were inspired by the ‘blur’ , emphasising atmosphere or ambiguity. The exhibition traced a loose trajectory connecting contemporary artists such as Chris Bond, Amanda Marburg and Kirrily Hammond to earlier predecessors, including Arthur Streeton, E. Phillips Fox and Clarice Beckett.

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^{Image: Helen Kennedy, Untitled 2001, oil on linen, 100 x 130 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne}