Bruce Vinall
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Path in Patchwork1983, acrylic on canvas,
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Receiving PhDLatrobe University, 2003 |
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Residency,
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Another Look at Tower HillCollaborative exhibition with Assistant Professor Kanaid Silsat, Dr Annette Iggulden and Mark Rashleigh, Deakin University, Warrnambool, 2007
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Welcome to BruceVinall.com
Bruce Vinall PhD is an Australian, regional, visual artist and academic, who lives and makes his art in Warrnambool, on the southwest coast of Victoria. His thesis The Resonance of Quality: Pictures as Maps of Consciousness, is a studio based study supported by a written thesis, which is, in part, an exegesis to several suites of visual art. Vinall's influences are wide ranging and multidisciplinary including: the ideas of Alan Watts, Stanislav Grof and Robert Pirsig to mention just a few. Watt's The Way of Zen and Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance were his beginning texts and his thesis may be understood as relating to what Fritjof Capra has called the 'new-paradigm'. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality provides a centring principle for both the written and the pictorial aspects of the thesis.
Though many of the artist's works could be described as 'abstract paintings', they are partially derived from the visual/tactile/auditory 'outside' world. He also works on paper in watercolour and gouache and experiments, sometimes a little recklessly, with a wide and varied mixture of other materials.
Vinall has sometimes been described as a 'landscape', or as an 'abstract, landscape' painter, but prefers to use the word 'inscape' to describe his pictures. These works which reveal visual memory as much as abstract invention, may be seen to express an Australian vision of Abstract Illusionism.
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Hymns of Creation: Work in ProgressMerrivale Studio, 2008-2009 |