Author: Beebs
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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 month I’ve been painting, sculpting and gardening. I’ve been playing with a new sculpture (above), the working title is The Ghost Forest. I’m not sure whether it will fly or not. Playing is an important part of my work. I’ve also been in the sculpture studio developing my little Sailing with the Sirens sculptures,…
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Whitewall Art Projects Gallery
My work is in a ‘celebration exhibition’ at the new premises for Whitewall Art Projects Gallery, owned by dealer and artist Thomas Bucich at Shop 2/13 Old Hume Highway, Berrima gallery@whitewallartprojects.com The works in the show (both paintings and sculpture) are part of my work on salt lakes and I’m sharing here some pics…
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Fort Scratchley Sculpture Show 2024
Here we are at Fort Scratchley Sculpture Show Newcastle NSW. ‘Sailing to the Sirens’ are setting out on their journey and ‘Dancing at the Edge’ isdoing a few turn around the parade ground. ‘In the Balance’ is holding steady too.
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Field Trip: Hiroshima and Kyoto 2016
Travelling through Hiroshima and Kyoto. I like the idea that in Japan everything is considered; worthy of care.
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Field Trip: New Mexico Studio 2019
In New Mexico, I went to Los Alamos where the atomic bomb was built, and then to the Trinity site, where the first atomic blast occurred. The Trinity site is only open for two days of the year. I took photos, scribbled and did drawings at whatever took my interest. Later, I went to a…
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Field Trip: Nagasaki (2019)
Another hotel room studio. Something appealing about the Shinto idea that just a rock can be sacred.
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Japan Studio 2019 Higashiyoshino, Yoshino-Gun, Kotsugawa
I was lucky enough to have the use of a studio, out of Nara, to work on paintings for my 2020 exhibition 101 Views of the Anthropocene. The studio belongs to Kuniko and Kazu. I went there after visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki researching the atomic bomb. The studio sits above the Takami River (Takami-Gama). In…