29 May – 10 August, 2010
DAVID VOIGT
Wynne and Blake Prize Winning Artist

TRANSCENDING TIME AND PLACE

You are invited to a major exhibition of new and ongoing works on canvas and paper from one of Australia’s important and widely collected artists.

Exhibition Opening Saturday 29 May, 2010 at 3.00pm in The Octagon Artspace. by Robert Wilson, Editor Capital Magazine

Sanctuary acrylic on canvas 110 x 115cm

David Voigt was born in Sydney in 1944 and studied at the National Art School in Sydney from 1964 to 1968. In 1968 he won the English Speaking Union Travelling Scholarship and the Power Bequest Studio, Cite International in 1969. Between 1969 and 1972 he lived and exhibited in France and The Netherlands with extensive travels throughout Europe returning to live and work in Australia in late 1973.

Among his many awards are the Blake Prize in 1976 for his painting Blue Requiem, the Blake Prize in 1981 for Meditation and the Wynne Prize for Australian landscape in 1981 for Hills of Ravensdale.

He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and State Galleries of Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania as well as Regional Galleries in Bathurst, Newcastle, Sale, Townsville, Wollongong, and Gosford.