Finalist: Flying Arts 2013 QRAA

For a second year running... I am delight to be selected as a finalist into Flying Arts 2013 Queensland Regional Art Award (QRAA) Touring Exhibition, entitled 'Living Change'.  Curator Tim Morrell, Independant Curator and Writer (former Curator of Australian Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery) selected thirty three artists were selected into the Living Change Exhibition and will tour in 2014 with its launch at The State Library of Queensland on Saturday 1st February 2014 and will tour throughout the State to five regional venues including Dogwood Crossing, Miles; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba; The Centre, Beaudesert; Grassland Art Gallery, Tamboo and finally Childers Art Space, Childers with the tour ending mid January, 2015.

Resilient, 2013 H700 W600mm 

Artist statement; In art there is a continuous wrestle with balance, texture versus form, line versus tone and negative versus positive.  In Resilient the sleek stainless steel is placed against the rusty iron, forming fragile lines contrasting with the bold gestures of the corrugated steel, creating a balance between the spaces.  The work reflects a narrative of survival, a balancing the question will mankind overwhelm nature, or will a tree's ability to change with its environment leave it to bare witness over man's demise.

The current touring exhibition Essential Character of Queensland and my entry Road Trip (pictured below) almost comes to a close with its final exhibition at The State Library of Queensland from Friday 15 November to Sunday 15 December, 2013, this venue being closer to home I am hoping to go and view the exhibition.

Road Trip