Study for Yarra Icon

Study for Yarra Icon 1987

GOUGH, Craig

Registration number

1086946

Artist/maker

GOUGH, Craig

Title

Study for Yarra Icon

Production date

1987

Medium

charcoal on paper

Dimensions (H x W x D)

94 x 122 cm

Credit line

City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
© the artist

Keywords

Craig Gough, Study for Yarra Icon, Yarra River, 1987

Summary

Made in 1987, this charcoal on paper cityscape is a study for Craig Gough’s large ‘Yarra Icon’ painting held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and part of his ‘Melbourne’ series. This marvellous study gives central Melbourne the ambience, energy and density of any old world city. Indeed, abstract ideals such as vitality, energy and rhythm, and their formal resolution, partly drive Gough’s practice.

Gough was born in Perth in 1938, but came to Melbourne in 1974 to teach at the Caulfield Institute of Technology, now Monash University. He taught in fine arts for two decades, before dedicating himself full time to his art practice.