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— MEDIA RELEASE 18 July 2020 GARETH SANSOM ABOUT THE ARTIST: A Case of the Old and the New Gareth Sansom lives and works in Melbourne and Sorrento, Victoria. 8 August – 5 September 2020 STATION | Melbourne Sansom has had several retrospective exhibitions, including Transformer at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017, Gareth Sansom: Welcome to My Mind at the Ian Gareth Sansom’s upcoming solo exhibition with STATION is the Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne in artist’s first exhibition in his hometown, Melbourne, since his major 2005, and Gareth Sansom: Paintings 1956–1986, at the retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017. University Gallery, University of Melbourne in 1986. A Case of the Old and the New presents a new body of significant works Sansom’s works are held in numerous public and private alongside a collection of the artist’s emblematic paintings and works on collections, nationally and internationally, including paper drawn from an artistic practice spanning over 60 years. the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Sansom is one of Australia’s most highly regarded painters; a leading Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; figure of the Australian twentieth-century avant-garde. Showing Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Queensland regularly since the late 1950s, Sansom has created his own style of Art Gallery, Brisbane; Metropolitan Museum of Art, formal abstraction characterised by a punk approach, garish colour New York; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, palettes, hard-edge geometric forms abutting figurative gestures, and Wellington, New Zealand. the inclusion of provocative and ambiguous text and visual imagery. Merging references to art history, film, literature, philosophy and EXHIBITION DETAILS: popular culture with a personal iconography, Sansom’s gestural mark- Gareth Sansom making and intuitively formed paintings create a visual complexity that A Case of the Old and the New explores physical, psychological and material transformation. 8 August – 5 September2020 STATION | Melbourne 9 Ellis Street, South Yarra VIC 3141 EXHIBITION PACK: Image: Gareth Sansom, Guardians of the Galaxy (a science fiction), 2020, oil, Link to Dropbox folder with images enamel and collage on linen, triptych: 183.0 x 510.0 cm. ABOUT STATION: Established in 2011, STATION represents a broad stable of established and emerging Australian and international artists. With galleries in Sydney and Melbourne, STATION is dedicated to presenting a diverse, conceptually driven exhibition program, with the aim of fostering rigorous, critically engaged contemporary art practices. www.stationgallery.com.au MEDIA CONTACT: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, OR TO REQUEST IMAGES OR INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, PLEASE CONTACT LAURA COUTTIE: [email protected] OR +61 3 9826 2470.