Kevin Lincoln (artist)
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Kevin Lincoln | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 84–85) |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Etching, Lithography, Printmaking |
Kevin Lincoln (born 1941) is an Australian artist.
Kevin Lincoln was born in Battery Point, Hobart in 1941 and moved to Melbourne in the 1960s, where he has lived and worked ever since. Receiving little to no formal art training, in order to make a living before he could devote his time to art Lincoln worked various jobs, including as a welder and boilermaker. His early works are predominantly linocuts. The effect of the harsh and contrasting line work that is conducive to the medium, effectively reflects the sparsity of the industrial landscape that surrounded him during this early period. It was not until the 1970s that Lincoln began to work within the more dynamic medium of paint.
Lincoln has been described as Australia's most introverted and underrated artists by art critic John McDonald.[1] Despite his introverted nature, Lincoln is widely admired for his still lifes, self-portraits and etchings, all of which embody a sense of restraint and austerity. Recurring themes throughout his work have included age, mortality and the solitary figure.[2] Stylistically, his is work has developed from expressive social realism to abstraction,.[3] though was sometimes regarded as provocative; in 1969 his drawing of a naked figure both eating and defecating smaller figures [with] the caption "Don't get caught up in the system,'"[4] was seized from Jill Jolliffe's Alice's Restaurant Bookshop in Greville Street, Prahran.
At over 70 years of age Lincoln continues [when?] to develop his practice as a rigorous draughtsman, printmaker and painter.
