Interior 371 (Foyer II)

Jude Rae
Australia
1956

Interior 371 (Foyer II)
2017
oil on linen
Currently on display, Gallery 17
Place made
Sydney
Medium
oil on linen
Dimensions
150.0 x 260.0 cm
Credit line
James and Diana Ramsay Fund 2022
Accession number
20222P3
Signature and date
Signed and dated u.l., pencil “JMRae 2017 Interior 371 (Foyer II)”.
Provenance
Created by Jude Rae, Sydney, 2017; [Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 2017-22]; purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022.
Media category
Painting
Collection area
Australian paintings
Copyright
© the artist and Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane

  • A Sydney-based artist best known for her still-life paintings and architectural interiors, Jude Rae employs her technical talents to create an experience for her viewer, one distinguished by a remarkable stillness. In Interior 371 (Foyer II) Rae has depicted the foyer of the ANZ tower, which stands between Castlereagh and Pitt streets in Sydney’s CBD. Made for an exhibition at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, in 2017, this painting explores the relationship between light, colour and form through the depiction of an office building. Rae values ‘object painting’, as she calls it, because material objects possess their own intrinsic qualities. As she explains, ‘I am attracted to things that don’t have a high beauty value in themselves because it is more of an opportunity to find the beauty of the light or of their various relative configurations’.  

    Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art