Robert MacPherson is one of Australia’s most highly regarded contemporary artists. The exhibition comprises of approximately 200 drawings from the complete set of 2400 portraits that make up his largest ever work, titled Boss Drovers. Viewers are encouraged to see this work as MacPherson’s lament for the disappearance of the specialised knowledge, language and history that these working people of the land carried with them. A Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art touring exhibition.
Image: Robert MacPherson, Australia b.1937, 1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS (“YELLOW LEAF FALLING”) FOR H.S. (detail, no. 1916) 1996–2014. Graphite, ink and stain on paper.
