'Think what it would be to have a work conceived from outside of the self, a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the human ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language, to the bird perching on the end of the gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to stone, to cement, to plastic.'
Calvino - Six Memos for the Next Millenium
Now exhibiting at Australian Galleries: Works on Paper, 19th September to 14th October 2007
50 Smith Street, Collingwood. Monday to Saturday 10am - 6pm, Sunday 12pm - 5pm. Phone +61 (03) 9417 0800 for enquiries. More information
I've always wanted to make a painting of land by subjecting my paper or canvas to the same kinds of physical processes which the land itself experiences; the same forces of nature - drought, rain and fire - even dust storms, insect plagues and the peregrinations of lizards. Last year I went some way to fulfilling this ambition. And one work in particular survived five complex rites of passage. Continue reading...
From an account of the making of the work by John Wolseley
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Camel Gate Border Track SA/VIC Watercolour, carbonized wood, graphite on paper |
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Watercolour on paper
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Carbonized wood on paper |
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Scrambling, Climbing, Flying and Moving Through the Cobboboonee Forest Watercolour, carbonised wood, graphite on 16 sheets of paper |
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Isopogon Frot Royal National Park Carbonised wood and watercolour on paper |
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Ephemeral swamps; Milmed Rocks Track Watercolour and carbonised wood on paper |
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