SHARED SPACES (2019)
The paintings in this series were done for a group exhibition called ‘Shared Spaces’ at the Be Brave Artspace in Avalon, Sydney, in October/November 2019. Also exhibiting were Nita Lewis, Vicki Ratcliff, Kate Robinson and Simone Read.
Many of these paintings then went to Sous le Soleil, a beautiful French restaurant on Sydney’s North Shore, early in 2020.
My thoughts turned immediately to jetties, wharves and lighthouses when we decided on the name ‘Shared Spaces’ for our exhibition. I love these structures, and I suspect it’s because there’s something solitary about them. They sit on their own, often isolated, and yet there’s life all around them, never too far away. We live in shared spaces, our presence and impact always evident in enormously varying degrees, but in this series of paintings there is very little of that presence to be seen. Below are some of the paintings from that exhibition.
Unless noted otherwise, the paintings below are available for purchase. Please drop me an email.
eddystone point lighthouse, bay of fires, tasmania - SOLD
Image area 400 x 180 mm
(Also in miniature - NA)
Palm Beach wharf, nsw - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
cape byron lighthouse, nsw - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
Palm cove jetty, qld - SOLD
Image area 400 x 180 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD to collector in New York, USA)
crawley bay boatshed, perth, wa - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
tanker jetty, esperance, wa - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
Cape du Couedic Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island, SA - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
FORT DENISON, SYDNEY, NSW - SOLD
COCKLEBIDDY MOON, COCKLEBIDDY, WA - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
EUCLA JETTY 5 - NA
Image area 180 x 400mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
MACQUARIE LIGHTHOUSE, VAUCLUSE, NSW - SOLD
Image area 180 x 400mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
wharf at the coal loader, waverton, nsw - NA
Image area 400 x 180 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
NORAH HEAD LIGHTHOUSE, NSW - NA
Image area 400 x 180 mm
(Also in miniature - SOLD to collector in New York, USA)
This miniature won Gold in the Landscapes/Buildings/Seascapes category of the ASMA (Tas) ‘Small and Precious’ exhibition, 2020
eucla jetty 4, wa - SOLD
(Also in miniature - SOLD)
catherine hill bay wharf, nsw - SOLD
Also available in miniature, image area 140 x 60 mm - NA
eucla jetty, wa
Image area 400 x 180 mm
It’s true that you’re standing on the edge of the country when you stand at any point on our coastline, but it was when I stood alongside Eucla Jetty many years ago that I felt, for the first time, I was standing right on Australia’s edge. There I was, just a teensy dot on that isolated stretch of coast; isolated but with an enormous country (in fact the rest of the world) right behind me. In a world so heavily populated, it was hard at that moment to imagine seven other people out there, let alone seven billion.
KATE ROBINSON, NITA LEWIS, VICKI RATCLIFF, NINA PAINE AND SIMONE READ
Opening night at Be Brave Artspace, 2019
