Collection 06: Fake Truths: An Historical Novel selected paintings and stories, 2020 / by Haydn Wilson

sub-fonds

2020

Graphic Materials, Paintings, Textual Records

9669893

14 paintings - oil on board
3 prop letters and digital text and photography

Hadyn Wilson (b. 1955) was the 2019 artist in residence at the State Library of New South Wales. During his time onsite in 2020 as artist in residence he researched artworks and realia in the collection and the history behind them. This culminated in the exhibition Fake Truths: An Historical Novel on display in the Amaze Gallery from 20 March 2021. The works displayed in this exhibition were interpretations of paintings and drawings from the Library's collection with accompanying objects from the realia collection. It consisted of 22 stories with paintings and accompanying objects and letters and a set of 7 paintings in response to the collection with no accompanying story.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

A selection of fourteen works that were developed in 2020 as part of Wilson's artist in residency at the State Library of New South Wales and were featured in Fake Truths: An Historical Novel, an exhibition inspired by paintings, drawings and realia from the State Library of New South Wales collection in 2021.

The first set of seven works, some with accompanying letters, explore associated stories, facts and histories of the artists and their subjects. It includes works responding to Winifred Redmond, Conrad Martens, Louisa Atkinson, Myles Dunphy, Bertha and Henry Lawson, Marjorie Barnard, Enid Marguerite Pockley, Eleanor Parks, Alfred William Eustace, Hans Heysen and Peter Wohlleben.

The second set of seven works 'Reflecting the Collection' were created as a response to paintings in the collection with no accompanying story. They include a portrait of Bungaree by Charles Rodius, Charles Ritchie’s portrait of AH Fullwood, Douglas Pratt’s Mosman Bay with Pacifica, Percy Lindsay’s the Tingira, Edwin Dalton’s portrait of Thomas Jones, Oscar Fristrom’s portrait of an Aboriginal man and Lady Clarinda Parkes.