Worm Mountain at C3

A few details of my painting _ painted in acrylic behind perspex.

Installation shots of the gallery

My paintings on perspex

Dane Lovett's portrait of Rick Rubin

Dane Lovett

Jordan Wood's Sculpture centre

Me, Lucy and Linda L to R

Linda Tegg - video work

Lucy Griggs

Amber Wallis

Andy Hutson

Worm Mountain - Exhibition in Melbourne opens 23 June

Worm Mountain a little conText

OPENING 6 - 8pm Wed 23rd June runs untill the 11th of July

Amber Wallis, Andy Hutson, Dane Lovett, Jordan Wood, Linda Tegg, Lucy Griggs and Nicola Page.

Worm Mountain presents new works by seven emerging artists exploring the theme of natural history.

Nature is an entity unto itself before and beyond us, endlessly moving in synergetic cycles of death and creation, ebbing and flowing in it’s own chaotic patterns of evolution and destruction, through time spans beyond the human grasp. The cultivated perspective is really one of comprehension as we come to terms with our own time and place within this chaos to deal with natural elements beyond our control, whether we are harmonious or contrary.

These artists cite nature and the sublime as concerns for their work, as they draw inspiration from their environments reflecting an internalized space, more so than the exterior landscape, one where value is not added but processed and experienced. This may manifest in many forms such as, the decorative, historical, scientific, sociological, spiritual, auto biographical or nostalgic but most often a unique fusion.

New work for a group show, Worm Mountain.

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A four panel painting going to the Waterhouse art prize opening at the Adelaide Museum in July, it will look something like this after it is framed.

Paintings, Oil, Acrylic and Mixed Media

New works for 2010 studio artists show at Rearview.
These are very much in the realm of vanitas art going beyond still life. I have been looking into themes on the spectrum of life and abundance with, I suppose, a kind of ideal of natural purity, polarized with, corruption, decay and urban/cultural decay.