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Travelling around as a teacher enriches new landscapes and circumstances that give me subject matter to create art. I am at the heart of it all, a landscape painter. While watching the rolling plains fold away reflecting on the last transient horizon, certain locations are ingrained as musings in my endless search for inspiration. I encounter new circumstances as an active observer and participant, delivering myself to conditions that give me the conceptual material for artworks. A duality, and an anxiety driven friction exists in this methodology, where the role and perspective of a teacher is to what I owe my current art practice. This conceptual practice and methodology to artmaking has developed into a cohesive project-based formula over the last 10 years; from recording music, to making short films, writing poetry and to making visual artworks as paintings and as drawings. The drawings are reliable studies for the paintings and as preliminary works, eventually become a collection of illustrations published as coffee table books titled ‘illustrated verses.’ This project is called ‘Distance makes the Art grow fonder.’This November 29th the Temora Arts Centre will host the latest instalment of this project, which in its third phase is called ‘The Rural Savant-Garden’ - Distance makes the Art grow fonder III. This exhibition consists of a series of six new paintings with a focus on landscapes of Temora and surrounds. A book of ‘illustrated verses,’ portray narrative based scenes, imagery from 2023 throughout 2024 illustrating reflections and moments from the road. Each drawing has an accompanied written verse, consistent with an everyday practice that is not unlike travel journalling.
(Life is art, and art is life and if life is work - then life will be an artwork.)
Please, enjoy the show.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
119 Aurora St, Temora, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2666, 119 Aurora St, Temora NSW 2666, Australia,Temora, New South Wales, Cootamundra
