Regrowth Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm 2016
NEWS
I am very happy to report that my entry Where There's Life There's... is a finalist in the $15,000 Redland Art Award. This award is biennial. You can read more about it and see the list of finalists etc HERE I shall keep you up to date - winner announced 14 October.
And, at the bottom of this post I have news about the Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize.
REGROWTH + DRONE STAR
As you can see I am still fixated on the figure of the drone - the drone in the landscape to be more precise. Both Regrowth and Drone Star depict a drone with emanating signals that create a star-like appearance. These signals are representative of a drone's sensors which receive and transmit data.
In Regrowth the drone's signals contrast with the emanating branches of the tree-of-life. This age-old transcultural/religious symbol is the drone's target - for data and perhaps attack. The red box - kill box- around the lone tree indicates that it is a target. Yet, the tree defies the intrusion by sending down new roots. In my mind it acts subversively, but then again, having seen Australian bush regrowth, I know that where and when it can, life re-emerges.
Drone Star plays with the viewer's sense of orientation. Are you above the drone looking down onto the ground or are you below the drone looking up to a sky. In either case the drone's signals have taken over, hijacked even, the landscape - skyscape. The vibrant colours act as a kind of camouflage sending a message of benign, or even fun, intent. But, is this really the case?
As regular readers know, I have a delight in playing with perspective and orientation. The drone is giving me ample inspiration in so many ways.
Here are links to some more of my recent DRONE paintings:
Drone Star Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm 2016
TATTERSALLS'S LANDSCAPE ART AWARD UPDATE
And, here's the news on the Tattersall's $30,000 Landscape Art Prize. The winner was announced on Wednesday last week. AND, congratulations to Ann Thomson for her win with Breakwater. Highly Commended to Melissa Egan and Guy Warren, Commended to Margaret Loy Pula and Members' Choice Award to Michael McWilliams. The exhibition will continue from 12 September to 23 September at the Riverside Centre, 123 Eagle St, Brisbane.
My entry Privileged Landscape? [below] received some great comments from people at the opening.
Privileged Landscape oil on linen 80 x 140 cm 2015
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