Sticky Drawings
Australia, 2020
This recent series of Works on Paper was made during the strange days of isolation and quarantine in 2020. These small paintings, were printed very large, using the motif of my son’s many collected “sticks” to explore our recent experiences of mental health, resilience, family, home, and a sense of isolation brought on by serious mental illness (Anorexia), within the wider isolation of a society experiencing the pandemic.
Sticks can build a fire, make a shelter, and support a forest canopy.
The distorted beauty myth of the modern age urges us to be “stick figure “thin.
These “Sticky” drawings contemplate the big ideas in small things.
Potholes, 2020 (with Louis Clutterbuck)
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Ink, gouache, watercolour, tea stains (Giclee print on etching paper, limited edition of 30).
110 x 110cm.
Heart and Sticks, 2020
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Giclee print on german watercolour paper.
600mm x 900mm (unframed).
Shelter, 2020
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Ink, gouache, watercolour, tea stains (Giclee print on etching paper, Llmited edition of 30).
110 x 110cm.
Canopy, 2020
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Ink, gouache, watercolour, tea stains (Giclee print on etching paper, limited edition of 30).
110 x 110cm.
Anorexercise Lunge, 2020
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Ink, gouache, watercolour, tea stains (Giclee print on etching paper, limited edition of 30).
110 x 110cm.