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George Kennedy is a multidisciplinary artist based in nipaluna/Hobart. The heart of George’s practice is drawing. It’s intrinsic in every media he visits along the way, whether It be painting, printmaking or ceramics. I clearly remember meeting George during his residency at the Q-Bank Gallery. We sat with each other and connected through conversation in a way I hadn’t expected.

George discusses endless green, similar amounts of separation, almost exclusively exploring Tasmania, being in full view, “adding on and on and on”, work developing as understanding grows, drawing opposed to photography as a means to document, “Queenstown colour”, memory based in feeling and action, escaping, building a relationship with the outside, enjoying the misery of nature, falling into the sublime, losing something by pausing, making bad ar ... 

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