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Monash artist paints it slow

9 April 2008

Herding Cats is one of Forbes' paintings currently on display at the Australian Galleries until 20 April.

Art and Design lecturer Rodney Forbes' solo exhibition, Slow Painting, is currently on show at Australian Galleries in Melbourne.

Forbes believes that in an age when many of the images we see are big and fast, there is a virtue in painting at an unhurried pace -- which is ironic considering he began his working life as a guided missile systems technician.

At the age of 30 he decided to become a painter and is now presenting his 20th solo exhibition, in which he muses on the pros and cons of slowness, in both painting and life.

Forbes describes himself as a storyteller painter. In this project he examines the relationship of time, storytelling and painting. He is interested in the way that the layering of painting echoes the layering of stories and how a group of paintings slowly bred together creates a larger meta-narrative about ways of telling.

Rodney Forbes is the acting Head at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and teaches in the Faculty of Art and Design's coursework and Research Masters programs. This project has been assisted by a grant from the faculty.

Slow Painting is on display until 20 April, 2008. Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture is located at 35 Derby Street Collingwood. For more information visit the Australian Galleries website.