Author: Beebs
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Vale from Arts In The Valley
Vale Gary Christian who passed away this week after a battle with cancer.Gary is a highly respected painter and sculptor who has lived and worked in the Southern Highlands since 2020 and has been a regular exhibitor with, and supporter of, Arts in the Valley over many years. Gary had over 25 solo exhibitions across…
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Vale Gary Christian
Your browser does not support the video tag. The studio is deeply saddened by the passing of our dear friend, artist, sculptor, craftsman and collaborator Gary Christian. Gary and James shared a close friendship spanning 38 years. From the inception of fitzpatrick+partners 25 years ago, Gary was also a constant presence and valued collaborator within…
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Summer January 2026 Journal
I recently went on a field trip to various locations in Australia – we drove along much of theOodnadatta Track, which is 600 kilometres of unsealed road in South Australia. I stopped offat Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, then went onto Alice Springs, the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park,Lake Hart, the salt lakes at Murray-Sunset National Park and…
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Birdsongs
This archive of work (covering many years) reflects my love of birds and their songs.A landscape without birds and wild life is falling short of beauty.
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Spring Journal
I’ve been creating paint-on-paper work for Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. I’mexhibiting there with fellow artist Bronwyn Berman. We are in BOOTH B21. Theexhibition runs from 11-14 September at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street,Eveleigh, Sydney, 2015. Sydney Contemporary is Australia’s premier art fair. A couple of weeks ago, Bronwynand I had a chat over coffee. Sometimes being…
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Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
I’ve been creating paint-on-paper work for Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. I’m exhibiting there with fellow artist Bronwyn Berman. Sydney Contemporary is Australia’s premier art fair and so we have both been keen to exhibit there. Look for Bronwyn Berman and Gary Christian in BOOTH B21. The exhibition runs from 11-14 September at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson…
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Life’s Odyssey
Odysseus’s ten-year journey from battle-ravaged Troy to his home in Ithaca has long been a metaphor for the trials of life. Grief or trauma, of any kind, a brush with death, can focus one’s attention. For me, this occurred recently. In Life’s Odyssey: Painting and Sculpture, I paint through the shifting emotions to come up…
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Life’s Odyssey: Painting and Sculpture
I have been working towards my new exhibition Life’s Odyssey: Painting and Sculpture which will be showing from May 3 – 18 at Whitewall Art Projects, Berrima.Please feel free to join us for the opening on Saturday, May 3 at 4 – 6pm at the Gallery. It’s been raining all week, but sunshine is forecast…
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101 Views of the Anthropocene
It has been said that the first atomic bomb, detonated at the Trinity site near Alamogordo in New Mexico on the 16th July, 1945 at 5.29 am, could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene. That first bomb, and those that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year, were created over 200…
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The Ghost Forest
This past month has been a deeply rewarding, fluid convergence of painting, sculpting, and grounding myself in the dirt of the garden. In the main studio, I have been exploring the skeletal forms of a major new sculptural piece, currently carrying the working title ‘The Ghost Forest’. At this early stage, I am honestly not…