Alan Constable

Constable has worked principally from his Northcote-based studio at Arts Project Australia since 1991, gaining critical success as a multi-disciplinary artist proficient in a wide diversity of media including pastel, gouache, paint and ceramics.

[1] As artist Peter Atkins states, this early "interest in cameras – objects that are totally reliant on vision to find, frame and capture an image – is not without irony,"[3] due to the fact that Constable is both legally blind and deaf.

He participated in his first group exhibition in 1987 at St Martin's Theatre Gallery in South Yarra, Melbourne and shortly thereafter he began regularly working at Arts Project Australia (APA), an organisation devoted to supporting and promoting artists with an intellectual disability.

Although Constable received no formal training, his participation in the studio program at APA gave him access to fine art materials and the informal tuition provided by the practicing artists employed by the organisation.

A multi-disciplinary artist, Constable's drawings and paintings are typically depictions of landscapes, solitary figures and animals, which are sourced from expired books and magazines, such as National Geographic.