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Dreaming This series is a suite of smaller canvases painted and exhibited at Milford Galleries Auckland in 2003. The statement below was submitted with the works. “Deep in the Australian outback, Alice Kelly, a white haired elder of the Muthi-muthi people, draws relentlessly with felt pens on a white pad. To me her drawings look like colourful scribbles, but Kelly says they are her Dreaming, a vision from a time beyond memory, yet still persisting, a time in which ancestral beings move across a barren Earth, shaping the landscape. It is a time filled with mythical spirits, sacred places and animal totems. “The Dreaming varies from tribe to tribe, but its roots go back to the people who came to Australia during the ice age. A part of Alice Kelly still lives in the Dreamtime, and as I watch her draw I feel a pang of envy. She must sense that. She looks up. “All Aborigines are born artists,” she says. “You would be too, but your culture has driven it out of you.” Extract from article by Rick Gore, Senior Assistant Editor (National Geographic Vol 198, No 1 July 2000)
The statement reflects both the subject and treatment of the works which are more or less random and chaotic assemblages of images compiled on a ground of metallic washes, suggesting landscapes. They can be understood as a dream-scape in which I have used metaphor and myth to convey various ideas about culture and identity and the role of the artist. Like the “outsider art” mentioned in the statement, the imagery is made up spontaneously, by impulse rather than design, in the surrealist tradition.
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Anything for Some Peace |
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 | Size: Width 380 mm x height 760 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003 Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. A nocturnal dream-scape populated with birds and other animals. Price: $2000 |
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Fortitude and Prudence |
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 | Size: Width 710 mm x height 560 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. A nocturnal dream-scape populated with birds and other animals. Price: $2200 |
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Kiwi Land |
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 | Size: Width 710 mm x height 560 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003 Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. Metallic ground over painted in red. A cartoon style rendering of characters, birds and animals, which appear in various guises through this series. A surreal landscape populated by kiwis in which the central figure performs a dance or kiwi taming ritual. Price: $2200 |
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Message from My Future Self |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 460 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003 Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower right. A cartoon style story comprising a visual language about New Zealand, a bird land. Price: $2200 |
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Bird Woman |
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 | Size: Width 760 mm x height 510 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003 Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. A cartoon style story comprising a visual language about New Zealand, a bird land. Price: $2200 |
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You Are Not Me |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 460 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. Metallic silver and colour washes layered over the ground. A cartoon style rendering of characters, birds and animals, which appear in various guises through this series. Price: $2000 |
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Horse and Rider |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 460 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003
Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. Metallic silver and colour washes layered over the ground, with underpainting visible in places. Price: $2000 |
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I Must be Dreaming |
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 | Size: Width 380 mm x height 760 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003 Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. Metallic silver and colour washes layered over the ground. Images are placed randomly but connected by waterfalls or pathways. The horse is a frequent motif in this series and could be interpreted as a dream totem. Not for sale. |
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