Book launch and signing - Ken Whisson: Painting and Drawing

Join author Quentin Sprague with emeritus Director Terence Maloon in-conversation as we launch the monograph Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing. 

Richly illustrated with over 300 plates, and drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, the book charts a seven-decade course through Whisson's unwaveringly idiosyncratic practice. It covers his early years in Melbourne, his long residence in the Italian city of Perugia, and his return to Australia in 2014. The picture that emerges is of an artist driven by the vagaries of memory and an enduring belief in creative intuition: a combination that resulted in one of the most original bodies of work in Australian art.