Graeme drendel biography definition

          Graeme Drendel spent two years of his undergraduate studies at Federation University (formerly Ballarat Teachers College and Ballarat School of.

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        2. Graeme Drendel is a key Australian figurative painter and printmaker who graduated from Ballarat Teachers College in
        3. GRAEME DRENDELcan spend hours or days alone in the studio with the same characters in various reincarnations.
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          5. Graeme Drendel is a key Australian figurative painter and printmaker who graduated from Ballarat Teachers College in.

          Graeme Drendel

          Drendel always draws, in a sketchbook, the human figures he plans to put in a painting, even if he’s using a photograph as part of the process of working it up.

          (The painting The prize, for example, is based on a small black-and-white photograph the artist saw in an old encyclopaedia.) He determines the poses of his human figures from a model, customarily drawing Wendy or looking at himself in a mirror.

          Drendel puts it down to Wendy’s natural, confident temperament that there are quite often partly-clothed women, like the one in Study for ‘Puppy school’, in his pictures. There’s a strong echo of Magritte’s La liberté de l’esprit about them, too; and the title of Magritte’s work, ‘freedom of the spirit’, is a very comfortable fit with Drendel’s painted ladies.

          The woman in the Puppy school study looks enviably comfortable unclothed, as if she could walk around wearing nothing but her run-