Tag: George Gittoes
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Ave Libertatemaveamor – interview: ‘Contemplating the actions of the Russians helps me to be more sensitive to infernal images’
The Ukrainian artist who goes by the name of Ave Libertatemaveamor talks about life in her country since the Russian invasion, the mural she worked on with George Gittoes for the rebuilt House of Culture in Irpin, and why drawing…
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George Gittoes – interview: ‘The spirit of art cannot be suppressed by the barbarity of war’
The Australian artist has been visiting war zones for 50 years and he and his wife travelled to Kyiv the week after Russia’s invasion. He explains his need to go there to work with Ukrainian artists, paint murals on destroyed…
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George Gittoes
Gittoes has used films, notably The Bullets of the Poets (1987) and most recently The Miscreants of Taliwood (2009), as well as large figurative canvases, installations, graphic novels and journals that include drawings, cartoons, collage and writing. Rwanda Maconde (1995)…
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George Gittoes: Descendence stories, from Night Vision, The Diaries
Artist and film-maker, George Gittoes has shown new paintings the Descendence series (2009–2010) in his Berlin studio to mark the end of the year he has spent there, before returning to the Tribal Belt of Pakistan
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