Geoff La Gerche: Southern Beauty
October 2013
Geoff La Gerche has been exhibiting since 1963 when he held his first exhibition at Leveson Street Gallery, North Melbourne. From 1970 he was Senior Lecturer and later Head of Print Making at Caulfield Institute, (Monash University) and held this position for 24 years.
Daena Murray has written of his work that “although La Gerche is not religious, he invokes the biblical reference as a metaphor for his three decades of uncovering and rendering the impact of unspoilt places, the potential to destroy in human nature and the belief in the efficacy of art to change the world for the good.”
Fellow artist Victor Majzner has spoken of La Gerche’s love of the Australian landscape. “He loves to camp in it, track through it, climb it, swim it, canoe it, drive or cycle through it but most of all he loves being in it. When he is in the landscape he is in his element and he seems to get a fix of energy from it.
“He is one of those rare artists that is convinced that art can change the world, or at least the way we deal with the environment and each other.”
Geoff La Gerche: Southern Beauty shows at Without Pier Gallery, 320 Bay Rd, Cheltenham, until November 10.
withoutpier.com.au
Image:
Geoff La Gerche, Hill Beyond Beach.
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