Six paintings by Nigel Milsom are included in the group show, Shadox Boxer, at Maitland Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition features work of contemporary Australian artists who explore ideas of race, gender and class through images of boxing in their work. It includes works by Karla Dickens, Blak Douglas, Richard Lewer, Michael Willson, Nigel Milsom, Keri Glastonbury, Fiona McMonagle, Bianca 'Bam Bam' Elmir and David Matthews. A recent major acquisition of Milsom's work by Maitland Regional Art Gallery is included in the exhibition.
Newcastle-based artist Nigel Milsom's chiaroscuro paintings of the Maitland Wonder, Les Darcy (1895 - 1917), and other early boxers, are a tour de force of action portraiture. In a series of subtly geometric canvases, which bear the traces of their construction like a palimpsest, each boxer's gloves, boots and shorts serve as pivot points around which the fighting body is structured in space.
Shot through with a chalky luminosity, these monochromatic paintings collectively titled Judo-House part 9 (birdland) (2021), hint at boxing's seductive duality: the lightning-swift use of focused physical force counterbalanced by a lighter-than-air choreography of ducks and dives and fleet footwork that verges on levitation." – Tony Magnusson.
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