Roger Kemp - Artist Info

About Roger Kemp

  • Biography

    Australian artist Roger Kemp was born in 1908.


    Kemp is best loved for his large tapestries in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. These works capture well the abstracted style for which he was known.


    Kemp began painting representationally in the 1930's, with figures and dance, foliage and landscape all featuring in his works. This gradually evolved into a system of motifs he employed within strict guidelines of palette and form in his abstract works.

    In the same year as he painted Flower piece, Kemp was invited by Marianne Baillieu to present the inaugural exhibition at her new gallery Realities in Toorak. The show, which included a sequen...

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