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Exhibition

Steve Gough – What Surrounds Us

Where

Outstation Gallery
8 Parap Place
Parap, 0820
Darwin, Northern Territory

Steve Gough was born in England in 1956 and migrated to Australia in 1981 at the age of 25. He has lived in the Northern Territory since 1988.

Gough has always had a keen interest in the arts but has no formal arts training. Over the years, he has made many copies of paintings by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and Henri Rousseau. This includes full size replicas of Claude Lorrain’s ‘The Death of Procris’ and ‘Hagar and the Angel.’ Something of an obsession with Lorrain followed, as Gough long struggled to reconcile the 17th century European aesthetic with 21st century Australia in his art practice.

Other influences include the English landscape painters J M W Turner and Richard Wilson, as well as John Glover. More recently, Gough has been influenced by Korean and Japanese art in his paintings. In particular, this has included the narrative screens of the Rinpa school.

Gough is a regular exhibitor in the annual ‘Off Cuts’ exhibition at Don Whyte Framing in Darwin, and exhibited with Matthew Mainsbridge in Small is Beautiful at Outstation Gallery in 2014. His first solo exhibition titled; Woodlands: Strange Beauty was held at Outstation Gallery in November 2015. He has exhibited at Outstation Gallery regularly ever since. He was a finalist in the prestigious Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2016.

When referring to his work, Gough explains; “I just paint what I see around me”.

Crimson Finches and Speargrass Steve Gough

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"Zero" (wreckage of a Mitsubishi A6 M) Steve Gough

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Untitled Steve Gough

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Magie Goose trio Steve Gough

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The Hunter Steve Gough

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Ambush Steve Gough

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The Players Steve Gough

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Untitled Steve Gough

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Cycads and Planets Steve Gough

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Last light Steve Gough

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Cockatoos Steve Gough

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Bushfire Steve Gough

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Black Red-tailed Cockatoo Steve Gough

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Silver Crowned Friarbird Steve Gough

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White Gaped Honey Eaters Steve Gough

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Moonlight Brawl Steve Gough

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Sunset with Mars rising Steve Gough

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Sunset with Cockatoos Steve Gough

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Pair of Black Red-tailed Cockatoos Steve Gough

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Frog, Lilly with Freshwater Crocodile Steve Gough

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Joining the flock Steve Gough

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Three Silver-Crowned Friar birds Steve Gough

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Three Silver-Crowned Friar birds Steve Gough

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Crimson Finch Steve Gough

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Sunrise at the Billabong Steve Gough

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Flyover Steve Gough

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Honeyeaters and Kurrajong Steve Gough

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Cycads and Grevillea Steve Gough

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Pair of Northern Rosellas Steve Gough

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Tree Top Cockatoos Steve Gough

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Bushfire, Kites on patrol Steve Gough

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Wallaby lookout Steve Gough

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Escarpment Brolgas Steve Gough

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Landscape with Wallabies Steve Gough

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Nightscape Steve Gough

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Landscape with Brolgas Steve Gough

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