About The artist
The Artist
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Arthur Vaughan is known for his mixed media paintings with multiple viewpoints, texture and imaginative appeal. He develops his work intuitively, in dialogue with the emerging image, while retaining a critical eye for aesthetics and composition. He particularly explores humanity’s interaction with nature.
He exhibited extensively with the NZ Academy of Fine Art during a recent residency in New Zealand, receiving the curator’s prize in 2021. He has regularly sold works through the annual A4 exhibition of the Contemporary Arts Society of Victoria and was selected as a finalist in the Lethbridge Small Art Award (2016).
His work is represented in private collections around the world.
A self-directed learner, he has undertaken private tuition in drawing, non-accredited courses at the Australian National University and the University of Tasmania, and extensive private studies into drawing, colour and composition. He completed a MA (Qual) with high distinction in Art History at the ANU.
Recent Exhibitions
2022
A4 Art Australia, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Twitter Art Exhibit (York, UK)
2021
Twitter Art Exhibit (Cheltenham, UK)
2020
New Zealand Academy of Fine Art (Wellington, NZ), “Solo48”, individual artists by selection
Twitter Art Exhibit (Myrtle Beach, USA)
2019
A4 Art Australia, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
New Zealand Academy of Fine Art (Wellington, NZ), Members exhibitions: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Twitter Art Exhibit (Edinburgh, UK)
2018
A4 Art Australia, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
New Zealand Academy of Fine Art (Wellington, NZ), Members exhibitions: Spring, Summer
Twitter Art Exhibit (Canberra, ACT)
2017
A4 Art Australia, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Twitter Art Exhibit (Birmingham, UK)
2016
Lethbridge Small Art Award (Brisbane, Australia), juried show.
Seascapes Art Exhibition, Light, Space and Time (online exhibition)
Twitter Art Exhibit (New York, USA)
Comments
“Arthur Vaughan’s cosmic, powerful and challenging works”. Greg Chaston, President, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. Solo48 Catalogue, 2020
“Soft focus outback scenes of water tanks and glare…Art Vaughan’s delicate understate gouaches suggest the power of the heat and the endurance of such places.” April-Kaye Ikinci, review of 2017 A4 Art Australia, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria.
Special Merit Category Award, Seascapes Art Exhibition, Light, Space and Time, 2016