Late last year I was full of plans about what I wanted to do when I got home to Australia. I touched base with people and before I knew it things started to fall in place. I figured that I had enough artworks lying around to put something like a solo show together, when it struck me that presenting the Hamburg Sketches as a body of work in its raw form was a possibility. Some friends also thought that it was a good idea, so along with the help of dynamic supporter of the Arts in the Macedon Ranges, Nadine Hartnet, (founder of the Macedon Ranges Art Trail) it's suddenly all coming to fruition. To say the least, I'm very chuffed! Having Nadine as my own private curator took so much uncertainty out of the decision making process, I can't begin to thank her enough.
I had initially intended to continue to work more on each of the prompt words, and probably still will as I continue to grow and explore as a painter, but realistically I know that on a practical level each painting would take me at least a month (unless some divine intervention or other regular cosmic weirdness occurs). Instead, the plan is to present the first series in it's entirety, and add a few of the precursors later ones. So, it's everything. Some of them are sketchy, some are rough, some are munted. A number of them I feel are amateurish, on a few you can see lines where I blocked the initial forms into the wrong spot and rubbed them out, but some are sublime because thanks to the Law of Averages 10% of the time everything works. I will add that I wish I had have thought about some things more when I was drawing them because I would have placed things differently on the paper if I knew I was going to add a boundary, but the point was to keep each daily sketch lean and clean with no preciousness to mar the outcome. They are not being properly framed, just hung with mat and foam boards, which gives me joy because I think it embraces the idea of the very beginning of something happening. Plus I like to have parts of the sketch obscured by the mat board because it hints of other things existing, back beyond the frame.
Delight - Greet the Dawn opens on Monday 4th March and finishes on Sunday the 31st of March.
I'll be having a gathering from 2-4pm on the 31st, where I'll say a few words and happily chat to people about the works.
All are welcome.
The Gallery Mount Macedon
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday - Tuesday (closed Wednesdays and Thursdays)
684 Mt Macedon Road
Delight - Greet the Dawn opens on Monday 4th March and finishes on Sunday the 31st of March.
I'll be having a gathering from 2-4pm on the 31st, where I'll say a few words and happily chat to people about the works.
All are welcome.
The Gallery Mount Macedon
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday - Tuesday (closed Wednesdays and Thursdays)
684 Mt Macedon Road