Image 1 Castlemaine Pie Shop 2021
Image 2 Wesley Hill Home 2021
Image 3 Lollipop Tree 2022
Image 4 Crab 2022
Image 5 Sir Les at Blockbuster (photo credit Katherine Seppings)
CAM’s FIRST BLOCKBUSTER: Sir Leslie Thornton RA(e)
This exhibition spans the 50-year career of “Sir” Leslie Thornton, acknowledging decades of sustained practice and a life-long commitment to creating. It features over 130 works and celebrates Thornton’s whimsical, playful and Australian centric approach. His reverently irreverent homage to the local sits comfortably alongside the cultural and relevant – developed in the parallel practice streams of painting, sculpture and fictitious documents. Witness the wit and wile of Sir Les – a true-blue iconoclast whose art imitates life as he lives and sees it.
Thornton’s Tour de Source
Explore the exhibition in an intimate tour with your host and guide, Sir Leslie Thornton. Les will share anecdotes, inspiration and his favourite pieces in a convivial atmosphere where you will glimpse the wonderful workings of Les. Questions encouraged!
In his decades long career, Leslie has had over forty solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows and has continuously created, bringing his aesthetics to work. Les escaped the confines of Queensland as a young man, with training in civil engineering, a love of lighting and a feel for the surreal. Arriving in Melbourne, he soon left to make Castlemaine – then a haven for the arty counter culture – his home.
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