- Title
- The inimitable Mr Meek
- Creator
- Luxemburg, Joan
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/177878
- Identifier
- vital:15357
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780994162816
- Abstract
- James McKain Meek was one of nineteenth-century Australia's great eccentrics. Arriving in the colonies in the 1830s, he ran a sly grog operation on the Ballarat goldfields, set up a cured fish business at Warrnambool, and managed a spa resort in New Zealand, but he is memorable today for the enormous, intricate drawings he produced throughout his career. A skilled draughtsman, he delighted in exercising his skill in miniature penmanship to produce a series of massive commemorative wall hangings and tables, celebrating aspects of local or colonial history or the achievements of particular families. He turned the production of printed versions of these drawings into a business operation, with varying success. This exhibition is curated by Joan Luxemburg, who is writing a PhD thesis on the life and work of this fascinating artist, and is accompanied by an illustrated scholarly catalogue.
- Publisher
- Art Gallery of Ballarat
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © Art Gallery of Ballarat and contributors, 2015
- Subject
- Exhibitions; Graphic arts; Australian
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