For the individualist only

Lidia Groblicka
Australia
1933 – 2012

For the individualist only
1969
woodcut on paper
Place made
Adelaide
Medium
woodcut on paper
Edition
8/20
State
published state
Dimensions
29.5 x 44.7 cm (image)
41.0 x 55.0 cm (sheet)
Credit line
David Murray Bequest Fund 1980
Accession number
805G14
Signature and date
Signed in margin l.r., pencil "L D Groblicka". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
Carroll p.63; Schrapel p.16
Media category
Print
Collection area
Australian prints
Copyright
© Courtesy of the artist's family

  • Lidia Groblicka was born in Poland in 1933 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków after the Second World War. Her experiences of living in Stalin-era Poland gave Groblicka a heightened appreciation of freedom, and later in life  she expressed her views on social conformity in strikingly original prints. This work, ironically titled For the individualist only, was made shortly after the artist migrated to Australia in the mid-1960s. Groblicka found the suburban sprawl of her new home in Adelaide intensely alien. Depicting the uniform cream-brick homes in her environment, Groblicka’s woodcut achieves its rhetorical point through repetition.

     

    A consummate printmaker, Groblicka worked in relative isolation to develop a personal visual language – one encompassing Polish folk art and ornament – to comment, with remarkable prescience, on issues such as environmental degradation and the rapacious effects of capitalism and materialism.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

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