Mark Howson 'Childsplay' first nations artist

Mark Howson 'Childsplay' first nations artistMark Howson was a founding member of Roar Studios one of Melbournes earliest artist run initiatives. A proverbial roar against the art establishment, Roar artists championed rebellious, instinctual and figurative art. In his role, Howson creates deceptively minimal images. Pared back to shape and colour, Childsplay is an experimentation in texture, composition and the viewers interpretation. What do you see in these carefully arranged forms? A

crime and animalism

Dimensions: 91 x 71 x 3 cm

to gaze upon ‘Go Player Rocks and Rain’ is to remember one’s place in the world

Whitington has exhibited widely and is represented in numerous regional and tertiary collections

Framed Dimensions: 95 x 65 x 4 cm Signed: Signed by the artistComes with a Letter of Provenance 

'Party Series' 1989

It depicts a child holding a gun and looking away from the viewer

Framed with glass removed for shipping

luminary painter of the Australian landscape

tracing a silhouette of his subject’s form

‘Self Portrait of a Schoolboy 1953’ is a self portrait of the artist Charles Blackman

later translating his movements into a series of sketches that would later inform pastels and three paintings