Ally's drawing

 Photographed 14 June 2021 but drawn before 17 May 2021.

Marino Marini's "Horseman" 1947

 

Horseman
Marino Marini 1947
Bronze, 1638 × 1549 × 673 mm

Gallery entry from the TATE: 

Marini produced his first equestrian works in the mid 1930s. He was inspired to do so by seeing sculptures of medieval knights on horseback in Germany. The subject symbolised for him a primeval or mythical harmony between man and nature. After the Second World War, however, his figures on horses often expressed anguish. This related to Marini's experience of seeing Italian peasants on frightened horses fleeing bombardment during the War. The artist wrote that this sculpture was 'the result of a sad period which Italy passed through during the War', and described it as 'enclosed in geometrical lines', and 'very precise in its tragic and human significance'.

 

Horseman after Marini
graphite on paper, postcard

Brighton memoirs - Scrabble with Kewpie

 

Brighton memoirs - All at sea series

All at sea in a foreign land.

Sometimes I went for a drive to calm and reframe. I found these unused postcards in an op shop by the beach at Redcliffe. Altered using ink/watercolour printed with the back of a fruit tray.  The tracks of the cling wrap make unpredictable marks. Serendipitous.  See what you like.

I see a tiny navigable shore at the base of sea cliffs, and narrow paths to safety. Hill climbs or caves.

Brighton memoirs

Prints with Ally

linoprint on paper, media forgotten

Brighton memoirs - Coaster prints

 

Brighton memoirs

Brighton memoirs

Sitting at the table, painting in the dark.

watercolour on paper, postcard

Brighton memoirs

 Printmaking at Prince Street. Dark, dark days, and printing.

print made with an old coaster, media unremembered, postcard

Postcard - Any bottle

Pick a bottle.  Any bottle.  

Exploring the emotional archives.

print, oil on paper, postcard

Postcard - Comorvidities

 

Inspiring natural form

Crystal Creek, North Queensland

 

Printing collaborations with Ali George

A day in the studio with Ali George at Tarome, South East Queensland, creating printed fabrics for Kat Walsh to use in her own designs.

Aliquilts Studio, Tarome 

black acrylic on cotton

black acrylic on cotton

black acrylic
on white cotton (detail)

pearl white and orange,
on black linen

 

Update

I've been away from the blog for too long. I started posting in Instagram, which is fun, but doesn't provide me with an annotated archive of work. We travelled this month to visit friends in North Queensland, Caerphilly Station, and see how country can be used for grazing without significant land clearing and habitat destruction.  

The more you know, the more complex it all is.

Caerphilly Station, North Queensland

Art exhibition 2020

 Guerilla art exhibition, 1-31 October 2020, in the lead up to the Queensland elections.

This is a time of destruction, against which we offer the creative act. 

Everson, 1943

Caerphilly collection

Wearable art inspired by and created at Caerphilly Station, North Queensland.   

 

Mute as a fish

Thinking about the 'why' of my life and my practice. If you are an emerging artist for 20 years, are you a failed artist?  What is a failed artist?  There's no such thing, I don't think.  Creating is breathing. 

Exploring, I found Robinson Jeffers. This one, Great men,  from Poetry in 1940.

Karen has a passing thought

‘Gee, it’s not looking good Karen. Do you think we should maybe buy less shit’?

Oh no, Jane. It’s not our problem. It’s those fucking greenies who caused the fires’.

David was proud

David was proud of his work in mining. The dead landscape, he thought, had its own particular beauty.

Kev thinks about taxation reform

Kevin suggested tax reform might be good for the economy.

Eyes rolled.

‘They tried that Kev. The mining industry explained it was a dreadful idea’.