On Line Exhibition 2023/24
OUR OCEANS OUR EARTH
All artworks were completed on Wurundgeri Woi-Wurrung Country, and I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
Seascape,
Lennox Head beach, near Ballina,
Bundjalung Country, New South Wales, Australia.
Lennox Head beach, near Ballina,
Bundjalung Country, New South Wales, Australia.
Acrylic on canvas, 51 cm X 41.5 cm. Circa 1986.
[GIFTED]
I am quoting the following commentators on the Australian environment.
"The riches of indigenous culture are a window onto a long human relationship with a beautiful continent and its islands."
"Welcome To Country", Professor Marcia Langton, indigenous activist and author.
Three billion animals were harmed in Victoria's 2009 Black Saturday disaster and the catastrophic fires of 2019 - 20 in New South Wales. Land - clearing, predation & invasive species are also a serious threat."
"Fighting Fire". Karen Middleton, The Saturday Paper, July 22, 2022.
Seascape
Ocean Grove beach, Bellarine peninsula,
Wada-Wurrung Country, Victoria, Australia
Ocean Grove beach, Bellarine peninsula,
Wada-Wurrung Country, Victoria, Australia
Acrylic on canvas, 51 cm X 41.5 cm.
[SOLD]
"On Good Friday 1989 a quarter of a million people marched down to Bondi Beach to support POOO - People Opposed to Ocean Outfalls.
A Concert at Bondi Beach consisted of Midnight Oil, Dragon, Noiseworks, Rose Tattoo & others.
The concert marked a turning point of sorts as governments promised to deliver cleaner beaches. A bigger transformation in the way we treat water will be needed. We know hotter days & tougher drought will hit the continent hard.Community sentiment peaked on that day in 1989. Secondary water treatments became the norm & rubbish traps were installed at the end of the giant stormwater drains that emptied straight into the sea up & down the New South Wales coast. More water should be captured & recycled for the future when it will be more precious than ever before.
With greenhouse pollution continuing to increase, coral reefs - those wondrous, multicoloured reservoirs of ocean life - would be the first entire ecosystem to be destroyed by climate change, & it could happen in our lifetime."
- Peter Garrett, "Big Blue Sky", a memoir. 2016.
Peter Garrett is a member of Australian rock band Midnight Oil, and was a minister for the environment in two Labor governments.
Inland near Ballina,
Bundjalung Country, New South Wales, Australia.
Acrylic on canvas, 41.5 cm X 51 cm.
"The concept of Australia becoming a renewable energy superpower should be a no-brainer.
A clean-energy revolution is under way that will drive scientists around the globe to a low carbon existence. This will rival in significance the Industrial Revolution, which was driven by fossil fuels - coal fired power, and petrol & diesel engines. Unfortunately, this advance was characterised by governments & businesses pursuing growth, ignoring the economic & social consequences of the pollution they created & ignoring the related demands on the Earth's capacity. The most significant consequence has been human-driven climate change.
The world now finds itself in the unenviable situation of having to deal with these consequences as a matter of urgency, of dramatically reducing dependence on fossil fuels in the hope of containing global warming to manageable levels - 1.5 - 2 degrees Celsius by mid-century to ensure things don't get any worse.
Australia is uniquely placed to show true global leadership in the transition to renewables and clean energy , transport and agriculture. We have ample sun and wind power and the technologies to store and transmit them.
We have key minerals such as graphite, lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and rare earths of importance to the battery industries, solar panels and so on. We have highly trained scientists and engineers, strong research capabilities and standing as well as investors and the capacity to marshal the necessary private-sector finance."
John Hewson, The Saturday Paper, July 22, 2022.
John Hewson is a professor at the Australian National University (ANU) and former Liberal opposition leader.
New Years Eve Fireworks,
Sydney Harbour 2022, Eora Country, New South Wales, Australia.
Acrylic on canvas, 51 cm X 41.5 cm.
"In many places across the continent the so-called frontier mentality has at last yielded to science, and farmers are finding that the values of conservation sit well enough with their own.
Close examination might reveal that the bush is not a dangerous neurotic, that drought and all the other defects in the country are really defects in our thinking, and even that mateship, which is built and exercised less on our love of the bush than on our fight with it, is half humbug and baloney.
While we're at it, we may as well own up to all the carnage: a bit of truth and reconciliation will help us to grow up."
Writer Don Watson, "The Bush", 2014.
Sheep's Foot Roller, All Nations Park, Northcote, Melbourne [SOLD]
All Nations Park, Northcote Victoria, Australia.Wurundjeri Woi - Wurrung Country.
Acrylic on canvas, 51 cm X 41.5 cm.
"Not in Service"
Graffiti on tram parked near Thornbury station. [SOLD]
Wurundjeri Woi - Wurrung Country.
Acrylic on canvas, 51 cm X 41.5 cm.
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Photographic collage.
Brunswick St Fitzroy, Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country,
Victoria, Australia, circa 1996. [Framed]
Victoria, Australia, circa 1996. [Framed]
Photographic collage, (film), 43cm X 34 cm.
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