Roger Kemp—Sequence

Roger Kemp is a leading figure of the Australian avant-garde whose early forays into abstraction and experimental modes of expression established him as one of the great modern painters of his generation. While living and working in London between 1970 and 1972, Kemp was encouraged to explore printmaking by Australian artist Arthur Boyd. It was at this time that Kemp began to translate his distinctive ‘all-over’ technique from painting into the printed medium by building up a density of etched lines until tone, texture and space emerged. By the mid-1970s Kemp’s abstractions incorporated highly activated and airier spatial fields as his visual language achieved maturity.