Author: Beebs
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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…
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Random Selection
We are building the archive gallery. Until we are ready to publish the archive, here is a selection of work that spans 20 years. Please check back to this page in the coming months.
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On The Edge of A Beautiful World
These works were painted from field trips to salt lakes at two locations: the Murray-Sunset Park, in Northwestern Victoria, Country of the Latji Latji, Ngintait and Nyeri Nyeri Peoples; and the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia, land of the Adjahdura People. The salt lakes represent the extremities of experience. For me, they connect to life’s…
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Pink Lakes and Blue Skies
These paintings on canvas and on paper are a mediation on the harsh beauty of pink salt lakes and of the volatile wonder of blue sky. All works have concern for the future and hold within them the past: yet they are also about ‘being’ in its pure form, appreciating and accepting the present, and…