The Mistique and Philosophy of Artist Ian Fairweather

Ian Fairweather; Ralph Latcham
Queensland: Historical Publications, 1991.
First Edition.

30cm x 20.5cm. 28 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.

Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) was born in Scotland and educated at the Slade School of Art. Following service in World War I he lived a nomadic existence in Canada, China, Indonesia and Australia, in 1952 undertaking a perilous journey by raft from Darwin to Indonesia. After this he built a thatched hut on Bribie Island, Queensland, where he lived until his death. His work, an amalgum of western, Chinese and Aboriginal influences was layered and deeply meditative, painting giving him ‘the same kind of satisfaction that religion, I imagine, gives to some people’. This book is a series of essays on Ian Fairweather by a Bribie Island local who first met him when he interviewed him for the ABC and the Bribie Star newspaper in 1963.

Minor soiling and foxing. 0.5cm closed tear to top edge of wrappers front panel, with associated crease. Good Condition.

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