When it comes to climate conundrums a key aspect of inaction is that locally, nationally, and globally there is a lack of consensus from across a wide spectrum of primary, secondary, service, tertiary and quaternary industries on the policies and actions needed to curb increasing global pollution and the continuing degradation of Earth land, sea and air resources. This feeds into the political systems across the world and the lack of will of many to arrive at a consensus on a whole range of environmental and climate conundrums.
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40x60cm 2020
This painting represents the antithesis to the philosophy that man’s “moral greatness” can control nature. Perhaps man can occasionally mediate or to repair damage made. Man can attempt or seek to control nature, through science, technology, sheer brute force, but at what cost to either upstream or downstream or both – in every sense.
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40x60cm 2020
The 2020 COVID19 pandemic, just happened. Pandemics have occurred before, some have mutated, some came and went, all killed. Science at it’s most brilliant is no match for fake news or political pressures. This painting represents an event that “just happened” an uncontrolled explosion of a globally infectious, hostile and deadly virus aggressively mutating. How it happened is important, how it took global control is important, and why some countries did better at infection control than others is important, even more so.
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40x60cm 2020
In this painting I have created a possible scenario on the aftermath of a bushfire. Having been into bushfire recover zones, I’ve seen the indiscriminate way fire acts. Some areas are destroyed others partially and some not touched. We don’t live in never never land and it is argued that Climate Change has contributed to the seemingly increase of bushfire / weather ferocity.
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60x60cm 2020
I created this painting to represent the smoke haze from bushfire. Living in the Dandenong Ranges I have seen and experienced fire, bushfire and its aftermath. You just can’t see through thick smoke. In this painting I have alluded to something else within the haze.
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60x40cm 2020
This painting is based on XXXXXX overlaid by a newspaper article relating to Climate change and a proposal for an Australian Integrity Commission. I wanted to use this article as it covered both the issue of climate change and the need for Australian Government stronger policy direction in climate change and the release of a policy proposal for an Australian Integrity Commission.
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40x60cm 2020
Or “rainbow trail” passes by a protected natural forest area called Owl Land, a habitat for the protected Powerful Owl. This land has been severely hit of late by ferocious windstorms which have brought down significant number of old trees. Whilst the Powerful Owl is rarely seen, their hooting is heard around the Owl land and in our adjacent tall Eucalypts. I have imagined the Owl with fallen or broken trees above a now lowered canopy watching a passing sunset storm.
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40x60cm 2020
We live on the East of a hill side so rarely see any sunset colour During Spring we had a number of days with number high wind leading to much damage in our township. We also experienced and thunderstorms, interspersed with “red sky at night, shepherds delight” sunsets. Yet these sunsets have been seen before increasingly angry storms. This painting has been foregrounded by home and a magnificent Mahogany Gumtree. Climate change is with us we see increasingly more ferocious storms in our region.
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40x60cm 2020
Spring 2020 was cold. One cold November afternoon a couple of Kookaburra’s landed on the clothesline as they are often doing. The frozen line is juxtaposed against the warm colours of the clothes pegs has made for a humorous image...if only climate change did not have such serious connotations to all living things.
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60x60cm 2020
This image is taken from a local region of natural bush that was totally destroyed by bushfire. Subsequently planted with inappropriate species it was destroyed again. Over the past 60 years it has been transformed into an arboretum. Nature’s powers of renewal with human assistance have created a space of both natural beauty and pleasure. Nature continues to reflect on history, but will history be remembered by humanities future decision makers.
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40x60cm 2020
The notice board is fast changing from plenty to drought, fire and famine. What is to be done?
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50x100cm 2020
If both parties to a dispute bring an olive branch, are willing to hear each other’s point of view, are capable of reaching a consensus, have the power and authority (of factions within their jurisdiction) to make binding decisions, and can carry the weight of their populous they are capable of making transformational and beneficial decision for all parties. This may relate to climate change, war (military, land or trade), use of natural recourses and so on. In this painting the parties of conflict and the parties of conciliation are each bringing an olive branch to the table with the objective of reaching an mutual consensus on reducing the effects of climate change.
