Jan Senbergs in his studio. Image: Courtesy the artist and the NGV, supplied on the occasion of ‘Jan Senbergs: Observation – Imagination’, 2016.
I don’t consider myself to be a painter. I make images… Images that don’t always stem out of the formality of art. – Jan Senbergs (1)
Senbergs was a bit like that himself. At the time of that survey exhibition, critic Sasha Grishin described the artist as ‘a loner and a maverick’, but also labelled him a ‘gutsy, figurative expressionist and socially committed humanist’.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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