Stieg Persson
Heirloom Carrots
, 2015
Oil on linen
187 x 227 cm Click to enlarge

Biography

Born Melbourne, Australia 1959
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Stieg Persson’s paintings combine eclectic source material drawn from contemporary life, with monochromatic palettes and arabesque motifs. In melding these elements, Persson investigates the free interplay between abstraction and figuration.

Recent exhibitions include: ‘Stieg Persson: Polyphonic’, Ian Potter Museum of Art (2018); ‘The National: New Australian Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); ‘Painting, More Painting – Chapter 2’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2016); ‘The Fragonard Room’, Anna Schwartz Gallery (2014); ‘Theatre of the World’, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2013); ‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria (2013); ‘Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style’, National Gallery of Victoria (2013).

Stieg Persson’s work is represented in all major Australian collections including: National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of Western Australia; National Gallery of Australia; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 2003 he won the inaugural Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery.

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Bibliography

Artist website

Exhibitions

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The Fragonard Room

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Melbourne Art Fair

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Crypsis

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Works On Paper

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Old Europe
, Carriageworks

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History Painting

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The Fall

Recent Works

Stieg Persson

Untitled 2
, 2014
Ink on paper
100 x 70 cm, 113 x 83 cm (framed)

Stieg Persson

Altocumulus
, 2014
Oil on linen
153 x 127 cm

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Monarch Cakes
, 2014
Oil on linen
122 x 112 cm

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Ethiopian Sidamo and macarons
, 2014
Oil on linen
112 x 112 cm

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Cumulus
, 2014
Oil on linen
153 x 127 cm
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Publications

Stieg Persson

History Painting
, 2006
Anna Schwartz Gallery

News

Stieg with It

From Art Guide Australia, 11 May 2018
by Andrew Stephens

  As he worked with curators to set the parameters for his new survey exhibition Polyphonic, Stieg Persson was not interested in mounting a straightforward linear chronology. Taking out almost all of the space at the University of Melbourne’s sizeable Ian Potter Museum of Art, Persson’s show covers much territory and is broken into distinct […]

Stieg Persson Polyphonic at The Ian Potter Museum of Art

From ArtsHub, 8 May 2018
by Mem Capp

This exhibition, currently showing at the Ian Potter Gallery, is testament to an artist that continues to resist the ready categorisation of his work. Stieg Persson, Pathologie 2005, oil and alkyd resin on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz  Gallery. Stieg Persson:Polyphonic, currently showing at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University is testament to an […]

Questioning taste and privilege

From The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March 2018
by Ray Edgar

Stieg Persson reflects on his changing approaches in this mid-career survey of his work. In 1990 Stieg Persson produced an ambitious 16-part rumination on mortality. Ethereal and eerie, the series took its name from the ”stations of sickness” of John Donne’s 1624 work Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. “I wanted a great epic,” says Persson, amid his […]