Robert Grieve

by Ellis, David consultant in the arts

In this first major study of the artist, David Ellis has examined the artist's sources and influences - some obvious, some hidden and not easily specified - over a career of almost fifty years. He makes a point of continually placing the artist in context of his time, showing how he responds to and diverges from the influences around him. In doing so he presents a lively individual analysis of aspects of Australian art from the 1940s to the present as well as relating these to the special case of Robert Grieve.