{"id":15687,"date":"2020-09-04T21:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/?p=15687"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:15:08","slug":"brian-blanchflower-in-conversation-with-jcg-director-chris-malcolm-wednesday-9-september-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/2020\/09\/brian-blanchflower-in-conversation-with-jcg-director-chris-malcolm-wednesday-9-september-20\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Brian Blanchflower In conversation with JCG Director, Chris Malcolm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><h1>Brian Blanchflower In conversation with JCG Director Chris Malcolm<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>John Curtin Gallery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Wednesday 9 September 12:30pm &#8211; 1:30pm<\/h2>\n<p>Born 1939, Brighton, United Kingdom Brian Blanchflower lives and works Bedfordale, Western Australia. His affinity with nature is evident in his abstract paintings inspired by the natural environment. His interest in the notion of looking as a metaphor for spiritual contemplation finds perfect<br \/>\nexpression in the &#8216;Canopy&#8217; series, which the artist began in 1985. The series features large scale, densely layered paintings that subsume the viewer in their vital presence. Exploring the sky and space beyond, these works transmit Blanchflower\u2019s deeper spiritual motivation, each work \u201clooking upwards, and outwards, yet inwards at the same time.\u201d The acquisition of Blanchflower\u2019s Canopy XXII launched the Gallery\u2019s 50fifty Acquisition Initiative in 2017. Join Brian Blanchflower in conversation with JCG Director and 50fifty:2020 co-curator Chris Malcolm as he talks about the long-term challenges and joys of creating the Canopy Series and gives insight into his significant practice and reputation as one of WA\u2019s foremost artists.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,155,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support4waartists","category-50fifty2020","category-50fifty2020-pp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15924,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions\/15924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}