Athlete & Artist Exhibition 2013
Athlete & Artist Exhibition 2013
Artwork by Patrick Francis
Curated by Lesley Francis
You are cordially invited to attend this amazing exhibition at the Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley St, Footscray 3011, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mel ref : 42 B6. Free entry, Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, from May 31 - July 5, 2013.
View a sample of the artwork on exhibition in the slideshow below. Feel free to share with your networks.
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Artwork by Patrick Francis
Curated by Lesley Francis
You are cordially invited to attend this amazing exhibition at the Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley St, Footscray 3011, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mel ref : 42 B6. Free entry, Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, from May 31 - July 5, 2013.
View a sample of the artwork on exhibition in the slideshow below. Feel free to share with your networks.
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Absolutely Awetistic Arts
Cordially invites you to their Athlete & Artist Exhibition at the Splash Gallery - Phoenix Youth Arts Centre, Mel ref: 42 B6 72 Buckley Street, Footscray 3011, phone 9091 4700 which concludes 5 July. A Solo Exhibition by Patrick Francis (special needs artist) curated by Lesley Francis (author & poet).
Francis has won numerous art award_s, including the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Bank Contemporary Art Award 2012-13, MIRA Art Award 2012 & 2011 (Maribyrnong City Council), Youth Reward & Recognition Award 2010-11 (Moonee Valley City Council), Moonee Valley Foundation Encouragement Award 2010, etc., besides exhibiting his artwork globally, illustrating several books and promoting positive awareness on autism and intellectual disability.
Francis is a prolific painter who finds his primary source material in the visual culture of his city and in the art history of western civilisation. A huge range of images attracts his attention and from this basis he is ready to focus and delve into the essence, to the bedrock of these images. Francis has been drawn especially to the work of Michelangelo, Goya, Raphael, Munch and Gorky, and has a true gift for finding, in the paintings of these artists, the essential humanity of the subjects as well as showing the attitude and point of view that is often hidden or masked in the pictorial plays of the artist – Peter Fay in Art & Australia, vol 50, No 3, Autumn 2013.
http://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.aspx?Page_id=9845&newsletter=true&ID=1047&gclid=CK7O3_rf1LsCFQhgpQodbTAA7w
Cordially invites you to their Athlete & Artist Exhibition at the Splash Gallery - Phoenix Youth Arts Centre, Mel ref: 42 B6 72 Buckley Street, Footscray 3011, phone 9091 4700 which concludes 5 July. A Solo Exhibition by Patrick Francis (special needs artist) curated by Lesley Francis (author & poet).
Francis has won numerous art award_s, including the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Bank Contemporary Art Award 2012-13, MIRA Art Award 2012 & 2011 (Maribyrnong City Council), Youth Reward & Recognition Award 2010-11 (Moonee Valley City Council), Moonee Valley Foundation Encouragement Award 2010, etc., besides exhibiting his artwork globally, illustrating several books and promoting positive awareness on autism and intellectual disability.
Francis is a prolific painter who finds his primary source material in the visual culture of his city and in the art history of western civilisation. A huge range of images attracts his attention and from this basis he is ready to focus and delve into the essence, to the bedrock of these images. Francis has been drawn especially to the work of Michelangelo, Goya, Raphael, Munch and Gorky, and has a true gift for finding, in the paintings of these artists, the essential humanity of the subjects as well as showing the attitude and point of view that is often hidden or masked in the pictorial plays of the artist – Peter Fay in Art & Australia, vol 50, No 3, Autumn 2013.
http://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.aspx?Page_id=9845&newsletter=true&ID=1047&gclid=CK7O3_rf1LsCFQhgpQodbTAA7w
See books for sale at :
http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Tales-Lesley-Francis/dp/1481058193
http://www.amazon.com/Athlete-Artist-Lesley-P-Francis/dp/1478191406
http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-Awetistic-Arts-Lesley-Francis/dp/1478211776
http://www.amazon.com/Arts-Project-Adventures-Lesley-Francis/dp/1482644673
http://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Paintings-Volume-Lesley-Francis/dp/1478108436
See artwork for sale at :
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