In the Boat, Graeme Altmann
Bronze, 38.5cm x 28.5cm x 11cm
Provenance: Mossgreen, Melbourne.
Drawing his inspiration from the spectacular wind and salt carved coastline of the Great Ocean Road, Graeme Altmann creates drawings, paintings, sculpture sand ship-inspired assemblages. Altmann completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Deakin University in 1986 and in 2005 won the Mission to Seafarers Art Prize. He continues to work on the coast to capture themes of stability and change (1).
Artist Statement
‘My inspiration has been driven by my love and fear of the sea. I observe its power and its subtleties, its effects and influences. Expressed in paintings and sculpture I endeavour to explore the themes of stability and change: of our human need to strive for new ground, while often suffering a sense of loss and displacement as we transition through life. I do however hesitate to depict a specific location in much of my coastal work preferring to keep the southern geological forms as a painterly experience and allowing the story to develop within that space. Figures in boats are sometimes present and other times not – it’s the awareness of something not being there that refers back to that loss and displacement.’