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Where the sidewalk ends
Date: 2006
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 47 x 75cms
Edition: 30
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Remember me
Date: 2007
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 47x59.5 cms
Edition: 30
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First memory
Date: 2002
Medium: Hard ground etching on found plate
Plate size: 35.5 x 29.5cms
Edition: 30
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Under the oak
Date: 2006
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 37 x 13.7cms
Edition: 30
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One of the projects I gave the printmaking students I was teaching at the ANU in Canberra, was to ask them to make an image which related to the first memories that they could recall. I also made a print which was drawn and etched on the top of a discarded student plate I found lying in the studio. As I could not recall any first memory but just a confused jumble I decided to invent my own. |
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Wishing table
Date: 2007
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 59 x 89.5cms
Edition: 30
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The storyteller
Date: 2009
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 59 x 89.5cms
Edition: 30
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The title of this etching is taken from Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. In the image, the landscape and the dog are no longer as they were and only exist as a memory in the mind of the viewer. Places as well as people and animals hold important memories for us. We sometimes escape back to them in at different times. |
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One of my close friends has a gift for retelling his life through remarkable stories. These stories are hypnotic and come to life through a kind of alchemy which slowly unfolds like watching wood ignite and glow on an open fire. After the fire has died away we remember with clarity the vision and warmth that it gave us. |
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Piper at the gates of dawn
Date: 2009
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 59 x 89.5cms
Edition: 30
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Tobias and the angel
Date: 2009
Medium: Hard ground etching
Plate size: 59 x 89.5cms
Edition: 30
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The etching Piper at the Gates of Dawn came about after I recently read Kenneth Grahame’s classic, The Wind in the Willows. Each day as we walked our dog across Aplins Weir on the Ross River I was reminded of the author's magical description of the river and its inhabitants being awakened from their nightly slumber by the lyrical dawn call of the ancient piper. |
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In Tobias and the Angel, I have combined the motif of the river with narrative elements drawn from an etching by the Dutch 17th century artist Hendrik Goudt. Unlike Goudt’s, my Tobias appears with a fishing rod rather than a staff, but the angel Gabriel is still present and continues to watch over him as he completes the mission to cure his fathers sight. |
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