Politics of the Portrait
4000 BC to the Selfie (or the Mugshot)
Rex Irwin, International Art Dealer
A special gallery talk at Visual Arts in the Valley 2022
Saturday 1 October, 5-6pm, Supper Room, Kangaroo Valley Hall
Please join us for a special talk by Rex Irwin, international art dealer and collector, amusing and erudite speaker. Since 1976, one of Sydney’s leading art dealers, dealing mainly in contemporary Australian and European art. Former Director, Olsen Irwin Gallery (2012-16) and Rex Irwin Gallery (1976-2012). Regularly exhibited the work of Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore, as well as nurturing and enhancing the careers of many Australian artists such as Fred Williams, Cressida Campbell and Nicholas Harding, Archibald Prize winner 2001 and the winner of this year’s Wynne Prize.
This is a power-point talk (technical production by Brad Williams, River Recordings). You will get to meet Sylvia von Harden and all the others.
Limited seating. FREE but reservations required. Sign up during the October long-weekend at the Sales Desk at the exit in the Green Room of the Kangaroo Valley Hall Galleries.
Gary Moore
