Lot 43

The Melbourne Art Exchange, Melbourne 1989
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent

Criss Canning, The Melbourne Art Exchange, Melbourne, 19 - 29 October 1989, cat. no. 20
Kalianthi: The Art of Criss Canning, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 9 February - 13 May 2007
Kalianthi: The Art of Criss Canning, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 4 July-19 August
2007

Criss Canning, The Melbourne Art Exchange, Melbourne, 1989, pp.19-20 (illus.)
Thomas, D., Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty, Macmillan, Melbourne 2007, p. 53 (illus.)
Zimmer, J. and K. McGregor, Criss Canning, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, p. 61 (illus.), 185

In Criss Canning's principal monograph, David Thomas noted how the artists 'is not a fast painter, her paintings taking an enormous amount of time and energy ... It took nearly two years to complete the twenty-eight paintings for the 1989 exhibition at the Melbourne Art Exchange [where the present work was first shown].'

In the lead-up to the solo exhibition, Canning discussed her modus operandi: 'Painting for me is very much a 'feeling' thing […] I begin by sketching the design in paint, with a little medium added. Working directly from the objects arranged before me, I paint each of the things featured in their order of importance, completing each before going onto the next. It is necessary to be conscious to the balance and harmonies I want to achieve in the overall finished work.'