Kinetic Woman

Alexander Sádlo (1927-2021) was an artist who worked in several media - oil painting, collage, vitreous enamel, jewellery and ceramics. He was born in Czechoslovakia and during WW2 worked as an apprentice theatre set designer/painter; Alex was a student at Prague School of Graphic Art when he escaped communism in 1948. After a period in a refugee camp in Austria, he settled in Adelaide, Australia where he became a pioneer in the modern art movement. His mastery of large enamels is of particular note during this period, along with his innovations is contemporary jewellery, often set with opals he had cut and carved. 

 

Alex returned to Europe in 1972, settling in England with his wife Gaynor. He exhibited his highly coloured paintings, collage and enamels in London, Paris, Biarritz, Limoges, Tokyo, St Gallen. Oxford, Plzen and Eastbourne. His meticulously crafted paintings and enamels often depict semi-abstracted figures in action, while his stereoscopic collage series portray his other great interest, the depiction of 3-D on a flat surface. His ideas for enamel jewellery centred around ‘paintings to wear’. From 1983 Alex and Gaynor occasionally created ceramics together, mainly as vehicles for his painting.
 

 

Giclee Print on Paper - From the original oil on linen 1977, 132x116cm