Jon molvig biography

The Queensland Art Gallery celebrates the life and work of one of Australia’s founding expressionist painters with the opening of ‘Jon Molvig: Maverick’ this weekend.

QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said Jon Molvig was a passionate and rebellious painter – a relentless innovator, whose key works were created in Brisbane in the 1950s and 60s.

‘The exhibition ‘Maverick’ highlights the productive yet relatively short career of an intensely complicated artist and individual who died at the age of only 47,’ Mr Saines said.

‘Although born in Newcastle, it’s significant that Molvig chose to live here in Brisbane where, with great energy, he created innovative figure studies, portraits and landscapes, and made radical stylistic shifts in technique and approach to suit his subject matter.

It was in Brisbane that he built a national reputation.’

Exhibition curator Michael Hawker said Jon Molvig projected the image of a fiercely independent, feverishl