Bundanon Artist Residency 2006
A body of drawings produced during a 6 week residency in February
& March 2006 at Bundanon, Arthur Boyd's former home in Shoalhaven,
New South Wales. Bundanon is now run as a living arts centre, and
Nicholas wishes to thank the Bundanon Trust for the unique opportunity
to take part in the Artist in Residence program. www.bundanon.com.au
The natural beauty of Shoalhaven’s landscape inspires and
informs all of the work, with many rapid drawings made on daily
walks around the property of spotted gum trees, bases of trees,
bark, bones.
The residency culminated in two large scale drawings of the Bundanon
landscape, executed in the studio with charcoal. made from sticks,
bark and seed pods collected from the surrounding trees. Date: 2006
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Residency drawings (reduced version)
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Future Monoliths - Industrial Landscapes
The machinations of production: overwhelming structures of functionality
and assembly, constructions of concrete and steel linked by conveyor
belts, power lines and pipes.
Personal plans interpret refineries, silos and plants using spraypaint
and graphite in response to the limited palette of the industrial
landscape. Date: 1997
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All That Remains Exhibition
Inspired by the mummies of the Attacama desert (Chile) and by the
remains of animals and trees in Australia’s arid outback,
the works map the passage of time upon these structures. Outsized
and striking, the pieces construct interior landscapes from vestiges
of skin, bone and bark – simultaneously familiar and surprising.
Date: 2003 - 2004
First exhibited at Andrew
Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
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The Anatomy of Bark
An investigation into the seemingly random strata
of shed bark: wedged and caught, massed in heaping layers around
the base of the eucalypt tree.
Pencil maps of the flow over time
Date: 2004
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Drawings of the Figure - life drawings
Contemporary Ongoing studies of the human form, drawings from
life exploring the firmament of the body. Motion and repose, abstraction
and the fundaments of skeleton, muscle and flesh. Many life drawings
have been made during sessions at Jiotto Studio in Brunswick Street,
Melbourne. For more information visit JIottostudio.com
Date: 2005/6
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Miscellaneous Drawings
Ghosted gum trees, curled figure. Vivid colour and textures of
life and death in the Australian desert.
Date: 2004 - 2005
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Salvage
Large format drawings use outlines of the human form filled with
shapes and contour lines, intersections and boundaries. The body
becomes a fleshy container for an imagined anatomical landscape.
Large, bold contemporary works continue to use pencil and sprayed
enamel but extended by raw pigment moulded into
the paper.
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