2006 ALASDAIR MACINTYRE: JOURNEYMAN

EXHIBITION IMAGES

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Preview Sullivan Strumpf Fine Art Sydney 18 - 25 July

Melbourne Art Fair 06 2 -6 August

“Journeyman” comes at a point in my life where I am at the traditional “half-way” point of the biblical “three score and ten”(35), and also the suggested prime age at which the spirit is sustained in eternity.

As in “The Hero with a thousand faces”, my self-referential “everyman artist” figure becomes my perpetual fall-guy as the artist-journeyman on his quest for the eternal truth. The cyclical nature of existence is reflected in the recurring motif of the circle in “Journeyman”. The Liturgical influence is strong here, as is the works of Dante and others, but the overriding theme is that of the artist faced with the crisis of post-post modernity, and the true nature of art itself, within an aesthetically secular world.