The Lay of the Land / Ivan Goodacre | Ivan Goodacre

  • Ivan Goodacre, Silos and Sheds
  • Ivan Goodacre, Darbys Falls Road
  • Ivan Goodacre, Wheat Cropped
  • Ivan Goodacre, Wheat Crop Tracks
  • Ivan Goodacre, Canowindra II
  • Ivan Goodacre, Cowra Storm II
  • Ivan Goodacre, Farm Gate
  • Ivan Goodacre, Trunckey Creek Study
  • Ivan Goodacre, Harvester (Study)
  • Ivan Goodacre, Wheat Grower I (Study)
  • Ivan Goodacre, Wheat Grower II (Study)
  • Ivan Goodacre, Hayfield (Study)
  • Ivan Goodacre, Farm Shed I
  • Ivan Goodacre, Farm Shed II
  • Ivan Goodacre, Farm Shed III
  • Ivan Goodacre, Backroads to Canobolas
  • Ivan Goodacre, Three Rocks
  • Ivan Goodacre, Harvested
  • Ivan Goodacre, Lachlan Valley Way
  • Ivan Goodacre, Cowra Storm I
  • Ivan Goodacre, Moorilda
  • Ivan Goodacre, Wheat Field at Cowra
  • Ivan Goodacre, Another Nice Day at Wattamandara
  • Ivan Goodacre, Blue Gum Gully Mount MacDonald
  • Ivan Goodacre, Carpet of Wheat
  • Ivan Goodacre, Chance of a Storm
  • Ivan Goodacre, Dry Wind
  • Ivan Goodacre, Overlooking Cowra 1980
  • Ivan Goodacre, Bypassing Carcour

The Lay of the Land / Ivan Goodacre
29 April - 17 May 2010

Artist’s Statement

I have always been interested in images of the landscape. I was born in the Central West of NSW and I spent my early years on a farm, where my parents and grandparents owned a wheat growing property near Woodstock.  I was often drawing and observing the landscape from an early age. I was particularly interested in changing light conditions, so my drawings always emphasised the positions of shadows. As a result I’m aware of the tonal relationships as much as colours.

The main theme is the specific characteristics of the landscape as it is in the particular moment with respect to time of day, season, overriding weather pattern and land use.  I am interested in images of crops and I usually work on groups of several related images. Aesthetically the tracks made by farm machinery in crop fields are like vast drawings, forming grids and patterns that may be randomly broken by other tracks. These form interesting textures and compositional relationships when used in paintings.

Ivan Goodacre