Star Showers 2009
I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The title of this 2009 exhibition was borrowed by the revolutionary and visionary poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Exhibited at Watters Gallery in 2009, these were the paintings that followed the Headland and Introspection series, which was completed while I was undergoing chemotherapy. By the time of Star-Showers the Way to the Underworld was still Easy, but I was starting to emerge into the light.
In these images I am still exploring Gamay (Botany Bay), but I am also moving back along the so-called Cooks River and the Alexandra Canal. From the sandstone escarpment of Wolli Bluff (Pemelwuy Country!), I wander down into the valley, where the aptly named Occupation Street reminds us Anglo-Australians of our history.
Alexandra Canal
Easy is the Way to the Underworld, oil on canvas, 80 x 160
Who Pays the Ferryman? oil on canvas, 80 x 160
The Wreck of the Minmar, oil on canvas, 80 x 80
Serpent's Mouth, oil on canvas, 80 x 80
Timeline, oil on canvas, 29 x 59
Top: Occupation Street, oil on canvas, 13 x 50; Bottom: View from Wolli Bluff, oil on canvas, 43 x 83
Swell, oil on wood, 12 x 17; Wreck, oil on wood, 6 x 25; Refuge, oil on wood, 6 x 24; Oculus, oil on wood, 16 x 14; A pair of Ragged Claws, oil on wood, 12 x 17; Weathering, oil om canvas, 12 x 15.
Along the Canal (i) and (ii), oil on canvas, 10 x 30; Flare
Low Tide, Cooks River
