Pamela Tippett - Study from Life

Pamela Tippett (b.1950), Study from Life 1979, charcoal on paper, 67 x 49.5 cm, Lismore Regional Gallery Permanent Collection, Acquired from City of Lismore Art Trust Purchase Exhibition, 1979. Photo: Parsa Jamalpour.

About the artwork
Study from Life is a highly finished work, showing the interplay between light and shadow that has allowed not only a realistic depiction of a young man, but allows the viewer to think about him as a person.

About the artist
Pam Tippett has always been drawn to realistic, figurative painting. She is well known for her still-life paintings in a realist style stemming from the classical nineteenth-century tradition. Studying at Studio Simi in Florence between 1977 and 1980 reinforced her interest in continuing in this style. 

Pamela Tippett grew up in Lismore and was a student of Michael Taylor. Her subjects include portraiture and landscape, and in her recent career, Tippett has focused on still-life painting. Tippett has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and internationally in Italy and France. She lives in Goulburn and is represented by Australian Galleries.

Conserved by ICS / International Conservation Services 
Conservation notes: The artwork was dry surface cleaned to remove dirt, mud and soot deposits on the paper surface. Washed via inmersion to remove Biofilm residues, stain reduction, humidified and flattened.

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