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white picket fence
The Wheelbarrow
acrylic on stretched vinatge canvas with brass rivets 20 x 20cm
$200
The Front Gate
acrylic on stretched vintage canvas in floating pine frame (not shown) 39 x 39cm
$290
The Clothesline acrylic on stretched vintage canvas 40 x 50cm
$250
Weatherboard - acrylic on assembled boards 33 x 32cm
White Picket Fence assemblage - acrylic on vintage canvas, pine box frame, glass and piano keys - 23 x 18 x 4cm
$100
The Milkshake
Awarded First National Encouragement Award - Micro 40 Gallery 3 Byron Bay
Acrylic on board - 40 x 40cm
$290
The Blanket - wrapped in memories, colours and textures of my childhood. Cotton drop sheet painted and stitched.
Mother and Child - 27 x 12 x 9cm - vintage raw hide mallets, Tasmanian oak timber frames
The Tools - vintage sweets tin, platerer’s trowel, exerpt from old childrens book and acrylic paint
Looking Over the Suburb - acrylic on timber
Space and Place was the theme explored in my first year project at Byron School of Art under the direction of artist and teacher, Micheal Cusack.
This exploration quickly fed into my white picket fence theme, a reflection of my childhood and the roles women have played over decades being a mother, keeping house but most of all wearing the mask that everything is fine behind the white picket fence.
Here I explored the images and memories of growing up in the suburbs of Brisbane in the 1960s. Red roofs sheltering pastel houses, pastel scratchy wool blankets, hills hoist in each backyard, clothes and dinners made from scratch and a woman making it all work, until it doesn’t anymore. Tools that were kept out of my reach are now rusted reminders of the gender stereotyping typical of the era. I’m grateful to my mother, flaws and all, as she taught me probably more than she intended.
This nostalgic path is sure to return in my work.