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By Jenny Zimmer & Ken McGregor
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FORMAT: Hard Cover
The second edition of Macmillan's 'Mini Art' series explores the work of Sydney artist Jasper Knight. It includes a catalogue essay by art dealer Ken McGregor and over 100 full colour plates of Jasper's work from 2003 onwards, as well as candid photography of the artist at work in his studio.
'Jasper Knight is a young artist who belongs to that group of individuals sometimes described as 'junk poets'. He gathers his inspiration and builds his art from the throwaway detritus of urban society. In a sense, his art is both a celebration and a critique of consumerism. Most of Knight's iconography can be found in the decaying areas of once thriving industrial docklands. He skilfully depicts the old trucks, the discarded heavy earthmoving equipment and the smashed bodies of expensive motor vehicles. The rusting iron structures that once supported heavy industry, old piers and cargo wharfs, the ferry landings around well-used harbours, the crumbling facades of derelict buildings, lonesome chimneys, cranes and other abandoned machinery are his subjects. Knight has painted the docklands of Melbourne and the piers and ferries of Sydney Harbour.'
Publisher:
Macmillan
Pages:
143