Out of mourning

The day after I closed the 2017 exhibition, my mother died. 2018 disappeared.

I felt nothing, so I studied. As usual, Curtin drawing projects provided distraction and filled lots of empty time/space. I fell through the continuum.

Vale Judy George

I am working on a memento mori series of photographs, prints and pencil sketches, using found (deceased) objects collected during travels and on location at Barney View.

Exibition

My next exhibition is a joint exhibition with Rob Andrews at Percolator Gallery, Paddington in Brisbane.

No Ordinary Bliss

We'd love to see you there.

Opening night is 31 August! Not long now.

Birds Nests

Iluwanti Ken and Mary Katajuku Pan, South Australian weaving artists, submitted the sublime Bird Nests as their entry in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

Image retrieved from the ABC


I find the secret insides of caves compelling, like the secret undersides of pavement cracks. Crevices and interstices.

The Birds Nests of Iluwanti Ken and Mary Katajuku Pan speak of deep familiarity with the life around them. I'm sitting up at Barney View, which still  feels so foreign to me, and thinking how much quiet sitting it would take to build that familiarity. I'm like a fish out of water.

Craft nylon, on the other hand (a recent garage sale find) is touchingly familiar. Quintessentially me, Mt Gravatt. With profound apologies to Iluwanti Ken and Mary Katajuku Pan ...

Birds Nest
2017
Sue George
craft nylon, 120 x 100 x 100 mm

No Ordinary Bliss

I have a collection of pavement images collected over the years, while walking. This one from walks last year on the way to work, Annerley to George Street. 

Brisbane 2016. 2017. Sue George. Digital photograph. 20 x 29 cm

They celebrate the quiet, unexpected joys of the urban walk.  Hemingway's  'intoxicating romance of the unusual' enjoyed in the everyday.

For this year's exhibition I'm digging into the pavement archive. Painting, re-imagining and re-photographing pavement shots to accentuate the cracks and the signs of life in the concrete landscape.

Havana 2017. 2017. Sue George. Photograph of painted print.. 20 x 29 cm

Photos of photos

Playing with photos of photos, altered and re-imagined as they are re-photographed. I'm using an extensive archive of pavement images from around the world. This one from Rome 2016.

Yucatan

Limo cut inspired by the birds here at Hacienda Uxmal. Ready to print at the Graphic Bakery tomorrow. 

Ethical consumption

Thinking about trickle down economics and my own unethical consumption.