B. 1908 – 1987

Australian artist Roger Kemp is considered one of the country’s foremost abstractionists. His work trades in a unique iconographic language, conveying movement and energy through the dance of forms. Rather than reduce figures or the landscape to abstract forms, Kemp purses something deeper and more metaphysical. 

Described by the National Gallery of Victoria as “different from almost all others of his generation”, Kemp is the artist behind the gallery’s iconic tapestries hung in the Great Hall. He is represented across public collections, was honoured at the National Gallery of Victoria with a major retrospective in 2019–2020 and continues to be the subject of scholarship. 

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