Recently I had the pleasure to be invited
back to Tamworth to launch Reg Lynch’s Regospective
exhibition at the Tamworth Regional Gallery as part of the 2013 Country Music
Festival. Regospective is based on a
selection of Lynch’s work produced over the past 35 years. It is Reg’s farewell
after a long history curating Guitar
Shaped World, a series of exhibitions
to be presented in conjunction
with the world renowned music festival.
On a particularly hot day in Tamworth (over
40 seems the new norm) it was pleasing to have a large turnout (in excess of
100) to enjoy the hospitality of staff and fine catering of the Friends.
As the official proceedings unfolded I was
joined by ABC Radio presenter and art critic Henry Mulholland (a five times Archibald Prize finalist and Guitar Shaped World artist). Henry spoke
in some detail about Reg’s work. My role
was to contextualise his contribution in helping cement the gallery’s
relationship with the festival and all things country music.
When I was Director of the Tamworth Gallery
(1989-97), Reg was engaged to curate Guitar
Shaped World. Selected artists were
invited to produce ‘guitar shaped’ work and Reg’s particularly inclusive style
saw many surprising and remarkable works shown. Of note was the year we engaged
Wagga based performance artist Arthur Wicks to ‘perform’ on the back of a
semi-trailer as part of the festival’s signature Saturday morning cavalcade,
but that’s another story.
Reg Lynch graduated from Sydney College of
the Arts in 1981 with a degree in Design/Visual Communications and is best
known as a designer, illustrator and cartoonist, with work regularl published
in Fairfax media.
See newspaper clippings from the opening below, or a slideshow of Regospective works
here
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