Untitled Tale With Structure Untitled Tale With Structure
Untitled Tale With Structure 2017
Untitled Tale With StructureUntitled Tale With Structure
Untitled Tale With Structure2017
oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Bed Bed
Bed 2017
BedBed
Bed2017
oil on linen
150 x 150 cm
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Vase Vase
Vase 2017
VaseVase
Vase2017
oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
$8,500  ENQUIRE
Banana Harvest And Architecture Diptych Banana Harvest And Architecture Diptych
Banana Harvest And Architecture Diptych 2017
Banana Harvest And Architecture DiptychBanana Harvest And Architecture Diptych
Banana Harvest And Architecture Diptych2017
oil on linen
150 x 240 cm
SOLD 
Bedroom 1975 And Bedroom View Bedroom 1975 And Bedroom View
Bedroom 1975 And Bedroom View 2017
Bedroom 1975 And Bedroom ViewBedroom 1975 And Bedroom View
Bedroom 1975 And Bedroom View2017
oil on linen
150 x 150 cm
$10,500  ENQUIRE
Palm Orgy Palm Orgy
Palm Orgy 2017
Palm OrgyPalm Orgy
Palm Orgy2017
oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
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Chalice Chalice
Chalice 2017
ChaliceChalice
Chalice2017
oil on linen
150 x 150 cm
$10,500  ENQUIRE
Room 1975 Room 1975
Room 1975 2017
Room 1975Room 1975
Room 19752017
oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
$8,500  ENQUIRE
Studio View Studio View
Studio View 2017
Studio ViewStudio View
Studio View2017
oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Figures Figures
Figures 2017
FiguresFigures
Figures2017
oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
SOLD 

"The lightness and darkness of parenting permeates both the process, and narrative of these works. 

I am now a mother and have had to renegotiate time to create a productive and consolidated art practice. Works once extensively ruminated over in the flesh are now pondered while I parent. In thinking about my child’s future my thoughts stray to my past. These memories, both cherished and banished, have found their way into my mind and painting. My changed way of working has created a fragmented approach with long thought processes and minimal practical time. The works reflect this fragmentation with various vignettes.

My paintings while still directed by the process of painting have nevertheless crept into the terrain of the domestic. Framing, architectural forms and interiors peak out of colour fields and landscapes. Interior spaces are woven throughout the works. Some paintings are begun by referencing my father’s 1970’s ‘Woodstock Handmade Houses’ book, my childhood skewed in the dark side of that hippy utopian vision. These books are the only tangible things that I have of my father's. 

Other works are begun by referencing my own domestic space; bananas harvested from the yard, views from my studio. Sex continues to be explored in my work; pornography and the empty interiors of X-rated stills are also used as starting points. Yet the works become veiled, rooms turn into landscapes and the process of painting is allowed to erase these beginnings enabling new narratives to occur. 

I am interested in veiling to construct a psychological space that is strangely familiar rather than simply mysterious. I stretch representational elements into the abstract, allowing shape, form, composition and colour to take over to create a psychological landscape. My work rests in this territory of the uncanny, teetering on an edge between the known and the unknowable." Amber Wallis, 2017