Exhibition Artworks of Australian Artist

From 16 to 29 June, 2006, a free exhibition of 24 artworks by the Australian artist, Ian MacIntosh, named “Ways Of Looking” will be held at RMIT International University in Saigon South, Campus in Ho Chi Minh City, under jointly opened by RMIT President, Mr Michael Mann and Australian Consul General, Mr Mal Skelly.

Ian MacIntosh is a Melbourne based artist who first came to Vietnam in 1992 and has since returned regularly. He has worked across a variety of mediums and is strongly influenced by his time in Vietnam, focussing in recent years on a series of graphite rubbing drawings and a series of mixed media paintings.

In making his art work in Vietnam the artist is conscious of looking at Vietnam through Australian eyes. He is inspired by the differences he finds in Vietnam, by the colours and textures, by posters and public art, by the street life and the way the mystery of the Vietnamese language. By making pictures using local motifs the artist sees his work as a way for him to connect with his surroundings. It is his visual diary of his time in Vietnam, and a way for him to put into order some of which he finds around him, and to record where he has been and what he has seen.

 

“Exhibitions like this one not only enrich artistic life of Ho Chi Minh City, but the use of different perspectives and mediums encourages an expansion of the horizons of Vietnamese artists.” Mr Skelly said.