LINDER STERLING

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collage + nudity + flowers + cake

LOVELOVE STUDIO - end of year exhibition

Formula for Resurrection OPENING NIGHT DECEMBER 3

Solo Exhibition by Nic Plowman

Anthea Polson Art

Marina Mirage, Gold Coast

December 3-17

www.nicplowman.com

www.antheapolsonart.com.au

and check out the video here

AMAZING work by an AMAZING being

xx

NEW WORKS

Have been having some much loved time in the studio! YAY!

As promised I have revisited some of my earliest themes and techniques. My earlier works (which you can see a few posts back in "Art from the Past") were with a less worked surface that relied more on how the canvas/calico itself reacted to my mark-making. I also used fabric collage to add contrasting detail to the loose, inky pools and drips and illustrative figures.

In more recent times I have been concerned with 'mimicking' the fabric detailing with paint, and worked up the surface myself, without relying on the mixed media, and the figures have developed into fleshy creatures with less of the pencil line aesthetics.

Here I draw on both old and new, so that it is a more worked up surface than those early times, but it still allows for a spontaneity that is brought about by the paint/surface relationship.

These works can also be viewed on the 19KAREN website here

Because after all, her whole life had been spent as if it had been raining

acrylic, gouache and watercolour on linen

120 x 180cm

He taught her not to be afraid

acrylic, gouache and watercolour on linen

60 x 85cm

LONDON CALLING

I am so excited to announce that the amazing people at 19 Karen have partnered up with the equally amazing people at Porter Contemporary in New York and ART AND ESCAPE in London.

GUESS WHAT ELSE ? ? ?

ART AND ESCAPE in London have kindly invited me onto their online gallery!

Have a looksie here... http://www.artandescape.com/artists.php

Looks pretty flash doesn't it? Who knows, all going well I might even get over there in the not to distant future for a proper look...

Only a couple of works online there at the moment, so I am busy busy busy in the studio working on some new ones. Wish me luck!

Art from the Past! Part Two

Whoaaa!!! This is going back a bit!! The annual Christmas show at Jugglers Art Space in the Fortitude Valley. This was my first time participating in this show... I'd say about 2007? The group pics are of the then Artists in Residence at Jugglers. Sam Eyles, Sue-Ching Lascelles, me, Timothy McLaughlin (RIPxox) Sandy Lister, Randal Breen and Nic Plowman

Art from the Past! Part One

'For love cannot fly without resting (and testing)'

acrylic, gouache, watercolour and collage on calico

120x180cm

'I wish I was a pirate because then you'd sail away'

acrylic, gouache, watercolour and collage on calico

85x80cm

'"Now is the time to make a wish" they said. I wished for love (and a house of flowers)..'

acrylic, gouache, watercolour and collage on calico

85x80cm

Ahh 'Gypsy', my first solo exhibition!! Seems a lifetime a go, and also like yesterday as I remember feeling like I was going to throw up as I walked through that door on opening night. What I didn't know then was that those bundle of nerves strike every opening night of every solo exhibition!

This work which we look back on now, still haunts me! Haunting in a good way, as the three works pictured here are among those that people still ask about and still covert even after so many other works have tried to take their place since! A close friend owns "I wish you were a pirate because then you'd sail away.." Bet she didn't know then that it would still be such a topic of interest a years later.

These works were part of the show 'Gypsy' in 2009, at 19 Karen Contemporary Art Space on the Gold Coast. They spoke of heartbreak and longing, and used textile collage, watercolour and gouache on calico to tell their stories. I am revisiting some of these techniques and themes in some current works, having worked without collage for the past couple of years. Will post the new works soon.