Boilerwood Track, 2001, Robert Hirschmann
Oil and pigment on linen, 82cm x 82cm
Provenance: Mossgreen, Melbourne.
Western Australian artist Robert Hirschmann paints, draws and sculpts abstract expression of the landscape. Hirschmann has won both the National Art Award in South Australia and the Gruner Landscape Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His work engages with the ideas of claiming territory, the history contained within the natural landscape around, and memory.
The Boilerwood Track is found in the Warby Ranges in Northern Victoria, an area that Hirschmann has explored in a number of series of works. Over the years this steep old logging trail, has been subject to extreme conditions, from fires and drought to rain, marking the landscape (1).