Bold and colourful works are the result of Wayne Eager's long and unerring commitment to personal expression using the vocabulary of abstraction. The early expressionism with which he rendered life in inner-city Melbourne has matured in a very different environment. Now a resident of Alice Springs, the desert landscape and its people have had an indelible influence on his work.
Read MoreWorking with a linear abstraction that calls to mind the work of Ian Fairweather, Eager has developed a style that utilises and affirms both indigenous and modernist approaches. Neither narrative nor literal evocation, his art creates colour, tonal and structural relationships, to enact his personal response to his extraordinary environment.
Trained at the Victorian College of Arts, Eager belonged to the critically acclaimed ROAR group in Melbourne before moving to Central Australia in 1992 to assist in the establishment of the Ikuntji Art Centre. He spent time working for Papunya Tula, assisting the leading Aboriginal artists of that company, while continuing to pursue his own painting.
Eager regularly shows in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. He is represented in numerous collections, including Artbank, the Araluen Art Centre in Alice Springs, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin.
