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Local Mudgee artist Royston Harpur has been described as one of the contemporary world’s leading Gestural Abstractionists. He returned to Mudgee after a distinguished career as a conservator, critic and curator in Europe and Australia. Royston also lectured in art theory at the National Art School for twenty years. He has been exhibiting widely for over fifty years and his signature style began in 1967.
Royston has exhibited with many of the leading figures of the American abstract expressionists, leading gestural painters from Europe and both classical and contemporary calligraphers from both China and Japan. His recent regional exhibitions have included Cudgegong Gallery and the Orange Regional Gallery.
Lying somewhere between calligraphy and painting, Royston’s new work was inspired by his travels in Tibet, China, Bolivia and Australia. With their multiple layers of reference to East and West, literary references and observed reality, these works continue to deal with ambiguity.
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