David Keeling is a painter fully grounded in western art's long history of classicism, the tradition which runs from Botticelli to Poussin, from Puvis de Chavannes to De Chirico. He uses that artistic language − that combination of figuration, narrative and landscape − to describe Australia's shorter and sadder history of invasion and ecological destruction. From the bleak, denuded hillscapes of the 1990s, with their isolated markers of civilization − houses, gates, dining tables, curtains − to the more recent, richly-patterned treescapes of the Narawntapu National Park, Keeling's work uncovers and expresses the beautiful, tragic, surreal poetry of the Tasmanian environment.

64 pages, 38 full colour images, section sewn and casebound with jacket

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ISBN 978-0-9775572-4-0

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