{"product_id":"reverie-4","title":"Reverie #1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReverie #1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eIan McGilvray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewatercolour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20cm x 15cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis Gives Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,\u003cbr\u003eSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee” Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis painting series reflects upon how we see and make sense of the world around us. The starting point for the works is the visit of Charles Darwin to Australia in 1836, and his brief encounters with Dharug and Gundungurra country, notably around Wentworth Falls. The storyline then leaps both backward and forward in time to include the pre-eminent love of Darwin’s life, his cousin Emma. Through these musings I explore the vital role of love in giving life and humanity to the enquiring mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe works are grouped into two movements.\u003cbr\u003eThe first movement focuses on the profound impact on Darwin upon seeing the Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains, which he termed ‘the great amphitheatre’. Like a promethean actor upon the stage of this ancient landscape, Charles was on a relentless quest to discover the deepest secrets of life and the inner nature of things (Kant’s notion of the thing-in-itself: Ding an sich). As he marvels at the exquisite flora and fauna of the Australian bush, his journals reflect a decisive turning point in his journey toward a bigger picture of nature ’s taxonomy. But is he seeing the picture only with head, not heart?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe second movement explores the life-giving role of Emma Wedgwood in Charles’ life. Devoted to Charles, even throughout his debilitating chronic illness, it was Emma who enabled the great naturalist to pen and to publish his theories at all. This remarkable woman, mother to ten children, was winsome, musical, gracious, long-suffering, highly astute, and politically engaged; her high view of humanity fuelled a lifelong crusade against slavery. Emma’s was a world of people, social concern, the arts, and the working out of faith in times of great flux.\u003cbr\u003eMy own personal engagement with Charles and Emma arose initially from living adjacent to the Charles Darwin Walk and the ‘great amphitheatre’ at Wentworth Falls. For me, there is a wider contemporary concern triggered by the story of Charles and Emma. And it is a sort of elephant in the room in our post-truth, post world-order times: What gives life to us? What is at the heart of our being human? Does it lie in that which we know and achieve, or is it in how we give and receive love?\u003cbr\u003eNot wanting to reduce Charles and Emma to stereotypes, my aim is rather to see in their love and lifelong interdependence a leitmotiv for the dance between knowing and being. I am an observer, not an apologist for the Darwins. As it turned out, there were dangerous flaws in Charles’ aristocratic views on what he regarded as racial and cultural dominance (contrasting with the anti-slavery activism of Emma). But that is a story for another day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe two movements of this series draw in part upon diary records and events. But, for allegorical reasons, the works also wander off the track into imagined worlds and conflated memories.\u003cbr\u003eAs in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, there is a subverting twist in these paintings for the viewer who, like me, ponders the question of what (or Who) gives life to us, the stuff of dreams?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIan McGilvray Summer 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eABOUT IAN MCGILVRAY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBefore turning to a career in art, Ian was an architect, serving as director at Cox Architecture from\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e1983 to 2010. During this period he was involved on a wide range of public buildings, educational, research , cultural and sports projects. Ian has been active in promoting the integration of public art into the built environment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIn 2013 Ian graduated at COFA in the Master of Art programme, with a painting major. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eHe has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, Canada, and the USA – with particular focus on the Provencale landscape locales of Paul Cezanne.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eARTISTIC PRACTICE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIan’s artistic practice is centred on the human figure, exploring the intersection of the commonplace with the profound in everyday life. He employs devices of juxtaposition, memory, homage and ambiguity to engage the viewer in a dialogue about dignity within our human condition. Ian seeks to give a contemporary voice in the lyrical figurative tradition to explore longings within us that\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003epoint to a higher view of our humanity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eHe has written and spoken on the role of Christian faith in visual art. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDrawing forms the basis of Ian’s artistic practice. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIn 2012 Ian \u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003ewas\u003c\/span\u003e awarded the Hornsby Shire Emerging Artist Award. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-right: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 1.0cm right 460.7pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eEXHIBITIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eFeast, Pray, Love: Food and Spirituality\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e exhibition, Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne 2013. Finalist.\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e2013 Jenny Birt Award finalist, COFA, Sydney\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIntroducing Ian McGilvray \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eexhibition, November 2013 at Wallarobba Art \u0026amp; Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ePas de Deux \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eexhibition, April 2016 at Gallery Lane Cove, NSW.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eKedumba Drawing Prize 2017 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eentrant.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDomestic Violence \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eexhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDrawn Together \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eexhibition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eGalleryOne88, Katoomba, 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ePUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘Art at the Areopagus’ in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eZadok Perspectives No. 118, \u003c\/i\u003eAutumn 2013\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘Domestic Violence against Women: an artist’s response’ in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eZadok Perspectives No. 138, \u003c\/i\u003eAutumn 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘Stirred by a Noble Theme: Visual Imagery in the Psalms’, Moore College School of Theology, 2012.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘Outreach and the Artist’ contributing interview.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; 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