Jonathon Throsby
Jonathon Throsby's landscape paintings are not static subjects.
Defined by expressive brush strokes and thick, textured oil paints, there is a sense of movement imbued in the landscape. Combined with Throsby’s tonal and soft colour palette, it results in paintings that depict subtle changes in atmosphere and light – all within one setting. The colourful, abstract landscapes are highly evocative, expressing Throsby’s connection to a particular time and place.
Apart of the Your Friend the Enemy project, Throsby also has familial connections to the landscape of Gallipoli. Throsby is the descendant of Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges who commanded the 1st Australian Division at Gallipoli, where he died of wounds on 18 May 1915. He was the first Australian to reach the rank of major general, the first to command a division, the first to receive a knighthood, and the first Australian major general to be killed during the war.
Bridges is the only identified Australian killed in World War I to have had their body repatriated and buried on Australian soil.
Throsby has shown at Australia’s premier commercial galleries, including Roslyn Oxley9 gallery and in 2012 he held a solo exhibition Paintings From the Plains at William Mora galleries.
Image 1: Sphinx, 2014, oil on board 40 x 60cm
Image 2: near Suvla Bay, 2014, oil on board, 45 x 60cm
Courtesy the artist
In this preview of the Your Friend the Enemy documentary, meet some of the artists involved as they first encounter the surrounds of Gallipoli.
Including your local newsagent, you can also purchase the Your Friend the Enemy Special Edition at select Art Gallery shops listed here.
In commemoration of the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign this year, Your Friend the Enemy curated by John McDonald, is opening at S.H. Ervin Gallery.
The Your Friend the Enemy trip wasn’t nearly finished after the artists flew out from Turkey in 2014. The project had only just begun.
As we near the launch of the Your Friend the Enemy exhibitions, we look back to the personal links that inspired Your Friend the Enemy.
For artist Idris Murphy The Lost Diggers, accompanied by a show at the State Library held personal connections to the ANZAC legend.
Despite its geographical distance from Australia, Gallipoli holds great relevance and connection to contemporary Australian history. Linked by personal stories and histories to the battles...
After three days straddling the Golden Horn, there is a sense of itchy feet; artists eager to get into the field, but at the same...
Deirdre Bean • Elisabeth Cummings • Steve Lopes • Guy Maestri • Euan Macleod • Idris Murphy • Michael Nock • Peter O’Doherty • Susan...
Deirdre's watercolour paintings reveal the beautiful forms that can be found within nature.
Cummings works quietly and consistently. Her work, while influenced by landscape,her process is led by intuition.
Steve Lopes is a painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape works.
Macleod produces dark, expressive landscape paintings
Maestri’s work documents the many journeys he has made across the country and the experience of the Australian landscape.
Your Friend the Enemy – the title of this exhibition – is inspired by a recent discovery of 160 letters written by grandfather Charles Idris...
Michael Nock is a practicing artist primarily focusing on oil painting, his works are imbued with the deep emotion that is etched into the landscape.
Peter O'Doherty's paintings are tonal assemblages of oblique geometric detail imbued with dense shadow and vivid Australian light.
Susan O’Doherty is a mixed media artist whose work ranges from large abstract paintings through to small mixed media assemblages as well as acrylic portraits.
Holding a personal connection to the trip, New Zealand artist Stanley Palmer’s Father fought at Gallipoli.
Travelling informs the work of respected Australian contemporary painter Amanda Penrose Hart.
The landscape has always been Robba's muse, but in this expedition the meaning goes beyond the surface of the painting.