Frontier of Food
9 – 23 August, 2019
Carnarvon Regional Gallery, WA
This body of work was painted during my residency with the Gascoyne Food Council.
Living in a semi-arid landscape where it rarely rains you gain a lot of respect for our precious water resource and the people who dedicate their lives to convert it into beautiful fresh food.
With a bag full of paints I set off on field trips to plantations, pastoral stations and fishing harbours in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia to record my impressions of this compelling story.
Bounty From The Brine
Oil on linen
61 x 61 cm
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The Beekeeper
Oil on linen
49 x 64 cm
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Mango Tree in Bloom
Oil on linen
33.5 x 44 cm
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Strawberries in The Patch
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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Sunset Over Cornfield
Oil on linen
33.5 x 44 cm
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Capsicum Harvest
Oil on linen
44 x 33.5 cm
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Winter Morning Grazing
Oil on linen
64 x 49 cm
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Browsing in The Rangelands
Oil on linen
64 x 49 cm
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Gascoyne River
Oil on canvas
61 x 61 cm
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Gascoyne Landscape
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 cm
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Mardathuna Outcrop
Watercolour on Arches paper
43 X 37 cm
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Mulga Scrub
Watercolour and conte on Arches paper
20.32 x 30.5 cm
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Sweetcorn
Watercolour on Arches paper
20.32 x 30.48 cm
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New Moon
Oil on birch board
60 cm diameter
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From The Source: A Landscape of Food
6 – 18 August, 2018
Carnarvon Regional Gallery, WA
This body of work was painted during a residency with the Gascoyne Food Council.
With a bag full of paints ready to go at any time, I would often drop everything to be at a plantation as the crops were being harvested or to drive inland to capture a moment in time before it was gone, Each of these paintings form part of a bigger story which I would like to share here.
Inland Gascoyne is where, as a result of rare rainfall events, water is shed and begins to flow through the catchment of the Gascoyne River. This rainfall transforms the rangelands that are grazed by livestock. When it reaches Carnarvon it replenishes the aquifers where it is converted into fruit and vegetables on the Gascoyne Delta. The river then discharges into Shark Bay triggering the spawning of a variety of seafood.
At Sea Shark Bay Crabs
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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Last Two Mangoes
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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Carnarvon Farm
Oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm
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River Flowing
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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Cattle of The Rangelands
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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Banana Farmer
Oil on linen
60.96 x 45.72 cm
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Dusk Mount Augustus
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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Eye Spy Mount Augustus
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 cm
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