Tasmanian-based artist, John Ingleton has been a regular exhibitor at The Village over recent years.
John is an artist/printmaker who completed a Master of Fine Art and Design at the University of Tasmania in 2008. He also regularly exhibits at galleries in Hobart, and around Australia, as well as in the USA, Japan and France and is held in private collections in all these places and the UK.
The underlying theme of his art is the part that nature plays in our sense of place, especially the way that we in the west use flora to create comfortable spaces in which to live. From the early explorations of the eighteenth century when Frenchmen like d’Entrecasteaux and Baudin collected plants specimens from Australia to take back to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris where they were grown in the “Australian hothouse” (many subsequently ending up in the Empress Josephine’s garden at Malmaison) to the early English settlements in Australia which were planted out with European trees like Oak and Elm.
(Taken from http://lithographie.com.au/john-ingleton/)
“Tracing a Path”
“French Connections” by John Ingleton.
This Show, titled “French Connections” was opened by Dorothy Duncombe-Jackson and then Mayor Councillor Bertrand Cadet as part of our French Market Day & Car Show in April 2016.
John’s Exhibition is from a series of prints seen from the perspective of a Modern Day French explorer. The exhibition has its roots in the D’Entrecasteaux & Baudin expeditions at the turn of the 19th Century and the collections of flora taken back to France.
Exhibition of Works of John Ingleton “Twilight Of The Gods”
A return to The Village from John Ingleton. In this body of work John has tried to convey the upheaval of the turn of the 19th century by entangling the old Greek and Roman statuary of Versailles and Tasmanian flora (collected by citizen Labillardiere on the Bruni d’Entrecasteaux exploration) with the development of French porcelain and pottery.
