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Reuters
"A lot of images I have drawn on in the paintings are Reuters
photographs. Reuters is an international news gathering
agency founded in 1858 in London. It was the first news
service to provide political and general news to European
newspapers, largely to and from colonial countries. News had
become a commodity which could be brought and sold. Now
photojournalists as salaried employees of Reuters capture
images which are sent around the world instantly by
satellite, email and cable. Newspaper and TV companies have
yearly contractual agreements with suppliers like Reuters to
take their online feeds."
Right: Boy Throwing Stones
Hebron (Reuters)
Oil on canvas 755 x
1620
Song III Battle Hymn (Reuters)
Oil on canvas 990 x 585
Discord Diptych (Reuters) Oil
on canvas 585 x 900
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Discord Diptych (part 2)
Michelangelo tomb of Lorenzo de Medici 1460 x
1370
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Fayum Portraits
The portraits in the exhibition have also drawn on intentions
of the Fayum portraits. In the first three centuries A.D in a
fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse
cosmopolitan community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians,
Libyans, Nubians and Jews flourished. These people and many
of their contemporaries throughout the Nile valley embalmed
the bodies of the dead, and then placed over the faces
portraits painted on wooden panels or linen. These paintings
today known as Fayum were created to preserve the memory of
each individual. The naturalism was inherited from the fourth
century B.C Greek painter Apelles and his contemporaries. His
devotion to accurate representation greatly influenced the
future of Greek art and underlies the whole history of
western art down to our own day.
Fayum Portrait Oil on canvas
350 x 470 each
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'Vox Pops' and newspaper photographs of individuals
and babies from local newspapers are my source for the
contemporary 'Fayum' paintings which form part of the
exhibition.
Existing Paintings
The paintings in the exhibition also draw on characters from
historical works of art. I am interested in the way that
individuals exist as painted images. The process of moving
them out of their original context, allows them to be seen
from a slightly different angle, while at the same time
honouring the original context in which they were
created.
The juxtaposition of the different paintings in the
exhibition explore notions of individuality, innocence,
conflict, binary positionalities, cliché, and the 'frames'
through which understandings are created.
As a painter I am interested in incorporating ideas of
harmony, chaos and language. Notions of the global, colonial
and historical and the way in which these constructs move
through time and space are explored in this exhibition.
The process of shifting images around and juxtaposing them
within the craft of paintings creates a venue within which I
can realise my intentions as an artist.
Baby (Oceania) Vox Pop
Gouache on paper 250 x250
(click to view enlarged)
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Massacre of the Inncocents (Giotto)
Oil on canvas 1315 x 1235)
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Painting Titles
Soldier II (El Empecinado Goya 1815) Oil on canvas 755 x
1820
Soldier I (Enthroned Madonna Giorgione )Oil on canvas 755 x
1820
Boy Throwing Stones Hebron (Reuters) Oil on canvas755 x
1620
Song III Battle Hymn (Reuters) Oil on canvas 990 x 585
Song IV Princess (Reuters) Oil on canvas 990 x 585
Song V (Good Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti 1337- 39) Oil on
canvas 990 x 585
Discord Diptych (Reuters) Oil on canvas 585 x 900
Baby (Oceania) Vox Pop Gouache on paper 450x 320
Child (Reuters) Coloured pencil on paper 260 x 250
Discord Sleep Diptych Night and Day Part II (Michaelangelo
Tomb of Lorenzo de Medici)
Oil on canvas 1460 x 1370
Massacre of the Inncocents (Giotto) Oil on canvas 1315 x
1235http://www.artists.co.nz/Baby (Oceania) Vox Pop Gouache
on paper 250 x250
Fayum Drawing graphite, water coulour and pastel on paper 210
x 320
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