Crispin Akerman has earned a significant reputation for the elegant simplicity and fine balance he achieves within his favoured genre of still life painting. He uses a timeless vocabulary of domestic items such as ceramics, fruit, drapery and enamelware as well as native Australian flora to capture a sense of quiet contemplation, history and beauty. While the works are largely observational, the arrangement of the objects is highly constructed over underlying geometries, allowing for the exploration of harmony, balance, tension, light and atmosphere. His paintings explore their intimate nature in a non-specific location. The elements of this genre that Crispin finds so interesting are “the contemplative potential in it, the suggestion of the kinetic in the static, the metaphysical promise present in the very words, still life”.

Image: South Western Times

Crispin Ackermann

About the Artist

- Born 1960 in Melbourne, VIC. Lives and works in Hobart, TAS
- 2022
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  2019
  - Gallows Gallery, Perth
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  2018
  - Yallingup Galleries, WA
  2017
  - Gallows Gallery, Perth
  - Gallery One, Gold Coast
  2016
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  - Gallows Gallery, Perth
  2015
  - Gallery One, Gold Coast
  2014
  - Gallows Gallery, Perth
  2013
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  2010
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  2009
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  - Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
  2008
  - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  - Michael Reid, Murrurundi
  2007
  - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  2006
  - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  - Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
  - Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
  2005
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  - Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  2004
  - Gallery 460, Sydney
  - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  2003
  - Hill Smith Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  2002
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  - Gallery 460, Sydney
  - Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup
  2001
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  - Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup
  2000
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  - Gallery 460, Sydney
  - Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup
  1999
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  - Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  - Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne
  1998
  - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  - Gallery 460, Sydney
  - Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne
Collections
- Australian National University
- Artbank
- Canberra Eye Hospital
- New Parliament House
- City of Bunbury
- Voyager Estate
- St John of God Hospital, Murdoch
- BHP Billiton
- Many Private Collections Throughout Australia and Overseas
Awards
- South Western Times Survey People’s Choice Award
- Town of Bassendean Open Acquisitive Award
- Maitland Art Award