One of Australia’s most respected landscape painters, Joe Furlonger came to prominence in the late 1980s with a series of large-scale figurative paintings.
Employing a highly physical method, he applied swathes of colour with vigorous sweeps of the brush. With inspiration drawn from Matisse, Picasso, and Ian Fairweather, Furlonger has never attempted to disguise his artistic influences.
Drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Collection, Joe Furlonger: Horizons traces the artist’s career through a range of media from painting ceramics, sculpture, and drawing.
This exhibition also includes works from City of Moreton Bay’s own collection, showing them in the context of Furlonger’s broader oeuvre.
Joe Furlonger: Horizons is a touring exhibition developed by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
Image: Joe Furlonger, Untitled, 1997, pigment with acrylic binder on canvas. Gift of Ray Hughes through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2016. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. © Joe Furlonger.
