Book Launch of 'Lloyd Rees and the Architects' with Ross Wilson

Lloyd Rees, the great Australian painter of landscapes, light and water, was first married in the church that is now the Mosman Art Gallery Grand Hall.

He loved judging the Mosman Art Prize not only because he wanted to encourage local artists, but because the building held a kind of aura for him, bringing together memories, traditions, and feelings.

This talk will be presented by Ross Wilson, author of 'Lloyd Rees and the Architects' and will take place in this historic and special space for Lloyd. It will look at Lloyd’s extraordinary feeling for architecture that began as a child when he designed imaginary cities, through the forty years when he taught freehand drawing and art history to successive generations of architects at Sydney University.  

This celebration of Lloyd, the artist and lover of architecture, will include a Q and A session bringing together some of Lloyd’s former pupils, now prominent Sydney architects, to discover what made Lloyd not only a great painter but also a teacher of genius. 

Image credits:
Lloyd Rees
The sunlit tower 1986
Oil on canvas
107 x 122cm
Gift of Alan and Jan Rees through the Queensland Art Gallery
Foundation 1996 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of
Modern Art
© Lloyd Rees/Copyright Agency
Photograph: QAGOMA