George Gittoes 'The Skyscraper ' organic & textural

George Gittoes 'The Skyscraper ' organic & texturalGeorge Gittoes, an Australian artist, filmmaker and political activist, has led an extraordinary life. In 1970, he helped establish the Yellow House Artist Collective, a bohemian institution in Sydney inspired by Vincent van Goghs artist commune and the British Arts Lab movement of the late 1960s. After departing the commune, Gittoes settled in Bundeena using it as a base for his travels to regions including Rwanda, Afghanistan and Cambodia, where he

Triple plate etching on paper

Dimensions: 56 x 38 cm

consisting of 32 individual prints

cut with distant threat

sits a poem entitled ‘Watson’s Bay’

rational and irrational

Image Size: 91 x 61 cm

likely part of the printmaking process

he was trying to represent something that does not want to be seen

Condition:very good

Before Onus’s ‘Reflection Experimental’

Image Size: 70 x 71 cm