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a 3-week residency at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon,
among the weighty landscapes of Australian Modernism,
our own program of painting and drawing practice found
its way to these wraparound miniature oils on collected
cycad seeds. Each responds to being in a certain place
at the property (bull paddocks, our studio, a shared
freezer, the carpark), inverting and shrinking the surrounding
‘landscape’ into something hand-held and
provisional.
Later exhibited as part of the 2010
Members' Exhibition at 4A
Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, this
work takes its title from a poem by David Malouf, The
Long View (a slippage from' 'the small words that
keep us..'.).
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The Small Worlds That Keep Us
(Shoalhaven
oysters / Flame-tipped and freezer-fresh / River track /
Etching press and Arthur’s chair / Musician’s
cottage with wombat lights / Lower paddock / Singleman’s
hut / The compound / Movement studio and carpark / Upper
paddock)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
rocks, branch, bone, mushroom
dimensions variable
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(River track)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
rock
9 x 6 x 7 cm |
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(Musician’s cottage with
wombat lights)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
rock
8 x 9 x 11 cm |
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(Upper paddock)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
rock
10 x 7 x 9 cm |
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(Flame-tipped and freezer-fresh)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
branch, mushroom
15 x 13 x 8 cm |
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(Singleman’s hut)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
rock
5 x 4 x 6 cm |
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(Shoalhaven oysters)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen,
bone
12 x 4 x 7 cm |
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The Small Worlds
That Keep Us
(The compound)
2009
Oil on cycad seeds, lichen, rocks |
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| in the studio, with Arthur's chair... |
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