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George Gittoes ExhibitionPhotography by Philip Myers



Newington College is very pleased to showcase such

an important international renowned artist for theinaugural exhibition. George Gittoes has a sister show

at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston,

Texas called ‘Witness to War’ it opened on Saturday

16 April 2011. Some of the works in the Newington

exhibition are closely connected with the major works

in the Houston show.



George Gittoes works in a ariety of media:

painting, drawing, printmaking, installation,

ideo and film. He was born in Sydney, Australia

in 1949. He has been exhibited internationally,

most notably, in Documenta X (Germany)

1997. His other exhibitions include Minefields

(Genea and Moscow) 2000, Lives in the

Balance (South Africa) 2001, Across the Lines

(Sana’a, Yemen) 2002, and NO EXIT (Aeiro,

Portugal) 2003. His films hae receied critical acclaim in Berlin, New York,London, Chicago, and Copenhagen. In 1998 he was the artist in residence

at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and in 2002 was the artist in

residence at The School of Humanities, Michigan Uniersity. In 1997 he was

awarded membership in the Order of Australia (AM) for his serice to the arts

and international relations and in 2008 was awarded the degree of Doctor of

Letters by the Uniersity of New South Wales.

Gittoes is both a fine artist and a war artist who often risks his life in the process

of making his art. He has set up mobile studios in countries mired in conflict

and upheaal, for example, Cambodia, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland,Philippines, Bosnia, East Timor, Palestine, Congo, South Africa, Lebanon,

Chechnya, Western Sahara, Yemen, and Iraq. He has lied and worked in these

countries during the worst of times. His diaries are the center of his creatie

thinking, and his paintings and films expand and deepen his ision of a world

torn apart by warmongers, dictators and politicians. Recently he has been

working in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the site of his 2009

documentary film The Miscreants of Taliwood.

With an inspired simplicity, Gittoes explains his journey, his ision, and his

motiation in his own words: “Why do I do it? As far as choosing the roads I

have travelled, I have this instinct that if I get comfortable, the work will lose its

‘sting.’ So I go out of the comfort zones and into the wilderness to find my art.

In the past, it was the natural world where predators fed on gentler creatures.

In the contemporary context, I go alone to a different kind of human wildness—

Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan—not to contemplate nature, but the basics

of humanity…”

Students at Newington College, other isual arts students and any interested

members of the public hae a real opportunity to see oer 40 original works

that hae mostly been iew in quality art books or journals. Any members of the

community who want to purchase a work in this exhibition can contact GabrielleDoulton through the George Gittoes website www.gittoes.com

George Gittoes



Exhibited Artworks

Waronterra

Oil on Canas

244 x 213.5 cm

2002

COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST

Night Vision: Why I’m Here(Somalia)

Oil on Canas101 x 87 cm

1993

ON LOAN, PRIvATE COLLECTION

Shatter Chatter – Boy (Bosnia)

Oil on Canas

96 x 72 cm

1996COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST

Eye Witness (Kibeho Rwanda)

Oil on Canas

152 x 86 cm

1997


Rwanda Maconde(Kibeho, Rwanda)

Oil on Canas

152 x 86 cm

1997


Money (Miami)

Pencil on Paper

58 x 73 cm

2005


Nyima’s Drum’ (Tibet)

Pencil on Paper

62 x 44 cm1998


Mohad Jabary – 9 Year Old Survivor Hebron Massacre(Mid East)

Pencil on Paper

44 x 62 cm


Outside the News (Bosnia)

Pencil on Paper

44 x 62 cm

1996


The Legless Bike (Cambodia)pencil on paper

44 x 62 cm

1993




Exhibited Artworks

Blind Garden(Tribal Belt, Pakistan)

Pencil on paper, diptich

82 x 62 cm

1999


Vagas–Babylon (Iraq–US)

Oil on Canas198 x 291.5 cm

2006


The Main Event (Iraq)

Pencil on Paper

76 x 57 cm

2003


Bagdad (Iraq)

Pencil on Paper

76 x 57 cm

2003


Kafked–Endamorphosis (Iraq)

Oil on Canas

197 x 290 cm

2003


Wilson HIV+18y (South Africa)

Pencil on Paper

62 x 43.5 cm

2001


Wilson (Soweto, Sth Africa)

Oil on Canas

170 x 138 cm

2001


NIGHT VISION – Puppets (3)

Death

Collection of the Artist

Exhausted Still Walking (Afghanistan)

Oil on Canas

198 x 292 cm

2009


Blood and Tears(Kibeho, Rwanda)

Oil on Canas

152 x 86 cm

1997


Blindfolded Leading the Blindfolded


2009


NIGHT VISION – Night, Virus Squad & Companions

Puppets




Exhibited Artworks

Dance of Life

Gouache on paper

64 x 54 cm

1989


Ascension

Oil on Canas

197 x 290.5 cm2009


Puppets (5)

WAR


War


2008


War (study) Tripditch

Oil on Canas

44.5 x 105 cm

2008


What’s Left? (Pakistan)

Etching with text in pencil

85 x 61.05 cm

2000


The Yellow Room(Afghanistan)

Hand Coloured Etching

60 x 45 cm

2000


Statistics

Pen & Ink Drawing 58 x 73 cm

2007


Night Vision

Oil on Canas

91 x 76 cm

1993

ON LOAN, PRIvATE COLLECTION

Yellow Room–Spirit Doorway (Afghanistan)

Oil on Canas

150 x 80 cm

1999


Shatter Chatter (Bosnia)Pencil on Paper–Drawing with

text

44 x 62 cm

1996




Exhibited Artworks

Shatter Chatter (Bosnia)–study

Oil on Canas

40 x 40.25 cm

1996


Shatter Chatter (Bosnia)


1996


Tranformation–Chinese Woman with Hat

Oil on Linen

80 x 50 cm


Afghan Family (Refugees, Australia)

Oil on Canas

60.5 x 75.5 cm

2001


Eden in Iraq

Oil on Canas

104 x 95.5 cm

2006


Blown Away (Afghanistan)

Oil on Canas

75.5 x 75.5 cm

1999


What’s Left? (Pakistan)

Pencil on Paper – with text

44 x 62 cm1999


What’s Left’ Pakistan

Oil on Canas

75.5 x 60 cm

2000


The Legless Bike (Cambodia)

Oil on Canas

168 x 396 cm

1993


Blown Away 1(Tribal Belt Pakistan)

Oil on Canas

76 x 76 cm

1999


Death & The Boy (Cambodia)

Pencil on Paper

1993




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