Yvonne Boag

Australian artist

Yvonne Boag
Born	(1954-08-13) 13 August 1954 (age 70) Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality	Australian
Education	South Australian School of Art and Monash University
Known for	Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Artist Books

Yvonne Boag (born 13 August 1954) is an Australian painter and printmaker whose work reflects the many places where she has lived and worked.

Biography and education

Boag was born in Glasgow in Scotland, and emigrated with her family to Australia in 1964. They settled in the remote industrial city of Port Pirie where she attended Port Pirie High School. Her art teacher, the ceramicist, Petrus Spronk, encouraged her to apply for entry to the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide. There she specialised in printmaking under Franz Kempf, graduating in 1976. In 1977 she moved to Melbourne where, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology she was able to work alongside an outstanding generation of printmakers including George Baldessin, Tate Adams and John Loane, along with Neil Leveson at the Victorian (now Australian) Print Workshop.

In 1985, Boag moved to Sydney, where she exhibited with Australian Galleries and taught at the National Art School, Sydney College of the Arts, Western Sydney University and the College of Fine Arts. During the 1990s she conducted annual printmaking workshops at the remote Aboriginal community of Lockhart River in northern Queensland.^[1] She also worked and travelled extensively. She was artist-in-residence at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland, spent five years in Paris (including a residency at the Moya Dyring Studio in the Cité internationale des arts), worked in the Scuola Internazionale di Graphica in Venice, and was awarded the Australia Council's Japan Residency in 1998, having been Asialink's inaugural artist-in-residence in Seoul, South Korea in 1995. Since then she has regularly spent months at a time in South Korea teaching, exhibiting and consulting.^[2] She now divides her time between Seoul and Sydney.

Work

Living in different cultural contexts has led to the artist's preoccupation with displacement.^[2] The work becomes a response to Boag's own response to her new surroundings.^[3] Images are reduced to semi-abstract forms that combine areas of colour with line.^[4] The results are strong graphic forms which take on the character of signs.^[5] The pictures are simultaneously simple and complex. They become conversations between the artist and her context, reflecting the range of responses to being in a foreign place.

Collections

Castlemaine Art Museum^[6]
Geelong Gallery^[7]

Selected bibliography

Acquisitions 1992, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic, Australia, 1992
ArirangTV, Communicating through shapes, colors and lines in Mokpo, http://www.cultconv.com/yvonneboag/artravel2.html, 2019
Art & Australia, September 2003
Art World, Korea, August 1995
Asian Art in Australia, Bright Influence, in Profile Stories, https://asianartaustralia.wordpress.com, 27 April 2012
Catalogue, 2eme Salon Cimaise, Dinan, France, 1993
Catalogue, Discovery New Asia, Chung Ju Korea, 1993
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea, May 1995
Chung Chong Daily News, Korea, May 1995
Cross, E., Exhibition Review, The Age, 22 February 1989
Directory of Australian Printmakers 1982-1989, Print Council of Australia
Douglas B, An Aboriginal exhibition of awakening, https://issuu.com/first_nations_telegraph/docs/an_aboriginal_exhibition_of_awakeni, January 2015
Drury, N., Images 2 Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, 1994
Exhibition: Yvonne Boag "Strange Associations". IY archives: interview (2013, http://illustrateyourself.com/news/entry/exhibition-yvonne-boag-strange-associations-2015, 2015
Frost A, The uncanny and Changwon Sculpture Biennale, https://theconversation.com/the-uncanny-and-changwon-sculpture-biennale-66136, 2016
Germaine, Max, Directory of Australian Artists
Graven Images in the Promised Land, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1981
Grishin S, Yvonne Boag s Here and There at Nancy Sever Gallery in Canberra a sensual exploration of Korea, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/yvonne-boags-here-and-there-at-nancy-sever-gallery-in-canberra-a-sensual-exploration-of-korea-20160901-gr6e6t.html, September 2016
Grishin, S. (Ed), Australian Printmaking in the 1990s, Craftsman House, 1996
Hankook Ilbo, South Korea, June 1995
Kang Chul-Son's Cultural Journey to Australia, Korean Broadcasting Service, broadcast in June, 1996
Korean Eyesed Exhibition Review (in Korean), http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0000232240
Korean Times, Korea, May 1995
Korean-eyesed, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul Indesign, March 2003-12-08
MBC, Radio Interview, 1800hrs, 27 May 1995
McGillick, Paul, A voice of her own, Art & Australia Spring Vol 41 No. 1 2003
New Art 3, Craftsman House Press 1989
Petit Presse à Poing, Imprint Magazine, Vol 28, No. 1, 1993
Point & Marge, Imprint Magazine, Vol 28, No. 3, 1993
Scottish Painters in Australia Catalogue, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine Vic, Australia
Watson, B., Artist Yvonne Boag finds inspiration in South Korea, The Australian, 3 September 2016, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/artist-yvonne-boag-finds-inspiration-in-south-korea/news-story/ec23b523a38a48e57cbf8de1cc71b1d6

References

^ Hill, Peter (7 February 2003). "The painter and the passion". The Sydney Morning Herald.
^ ^a ^b Watson, Bronwyn. "Artist Yvonne Boag finds inspiration in South Korea". The Australian. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
^ Grishin, Sasha. "Yvonne Boag's Here and There at Nancy Sever Gallery in Canberra a sensual exploration of Korea". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
^ Llewellyn, Jane. "Yvonne Boag finds art in displacement". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
^ Brett, Donna. "mapping place, memory and conversations". Artlink. 26 (3): 30.
^ "Yvonne Boag (b.1954)". Castlemaine Art Museum Collection Online. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
^ "Yvonne Boag, Geelong Gallery". collections.geelonggallery.org.au. Retrieved 18 September 2021.