Gallery 1
REFLECTIONS & SHADOWS - FRAMED GALLERY - DARWIN - MAY 2011
These works are exhibited at Framed (The Darwin Gallery) during May 2011. They are collages which combine inked monoprinted tissue papers, acrylic paint and drawing media. They reflect the moods of this part of tropical Australia - including the sombre moods of a long monsoon season. The creatures that lurk in these landscapes are characters - some of them long extinct - and may be metaphoric.
Timeless
Mixed media collage on canvas
Only the animals and birds set the time as prehistoric
122cm x 30cm
Remember the Territory
From a long way off, thinking of a day in the Territory
Acrylic collage
six paintings 30cm x 30cm
Tropical Garden
Mixed media collage on canvas
An idealised tropical garden - mine is just as chaotic but has more weeds
76cm x 122cm
Mary River Rocks
Mixed media collage on canvas
Gardenias and young speargrass with an approaching monsoon storm
101cm x 40cm
Gum Tree in Dappled Shade
Acrylic, collage on linen
A hollow tree is home for flying foxes, doves and a tree rat
60cm x 91cm
Pondlife
Looking up to the sun from the bottom of a pond - teeming with life: frogs; fishes; bugs; slimy creatures...
Acrylic collage on canvas
61cm x 76cm
Going West
Memories of the mesas seen from the Victoria Highway - going west
Acrylic collage on canvas
122cm x 30cm
Palorchestes
Acrylic collage on canvas
A baby Palorchestes - a long-extinct ground-sloth-like animal - approaches a waterhole in dense rainforest.
40cm x 51cm
Rock Shelter
People shelter during the heat of the day in a cave shaded by Livistona palms
Acrylic collage on canvas
51cm x 81cm
Tree Swamp
Shadow and reflections pattern a paperbark wetland at Humpty Doo, Northern Territory
Acrylic collage on canvas
51cm x 76cm
Dahl's frog
Mary River - detail
Goulds Goanna (baby)
Pondlife - detail
Small pond - detail
Ornate burrowing frog
Rocket Frog 









