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60x40cm 2020
The blooming of our wild sparaxis is one of our strongest signifiers of a change in our climate. We have been in the same home for around 50 years. We see the wild sparaxis growing sparsely. Mostly they have been very ordinary in colour but this year we’ve had number of the brighter harlequin colours.
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40x60cm 2020
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
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
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
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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40x40cm 2020
We planted two Waratah around 30+ years ago. Like most, they took their time to take and develop. Today, one is around five metres tall and the other not much more than two. The tall stands over a narrow subsurface watercourse and next to a fast-growing tree fern, both competing for the eastern and northern light.
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40x80cm 2020
This work recognises the workings of entropy of nature. It is a nod to the artist Tim Silver. Many of his sculptural works is related to the concept of entropy. That is all in nature is in a perpetual state of entropy: the theory that all forms and systems are in a constant state of decay or change. This idea permeates both his objects and installations, themselves captured in this process of decomposition through free falling photo-narratives.
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40x40cm 2020
Another interpretation of our native birds searching for the scarce feed after the fires and smoke damage of the 2019/20 national summer bushfires. The birds, like much of our native fauna are foraging where they can. The grey early morning winter sky highlights the brilliant colours of the parrot. Perhaps, the bright shadows surrounding the parrot and green shoots are providing protection and sustenance.
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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.
