New "Candy Icing" this peice is available in Taiwan! Our recent exhibition in Hong Kong's SOTA Gallery. This series of abstracts of heritage listed buildings on both sides of the equator. This new series creates dialogue about the heritage of two cities on opposite sides of the globe struggling with the same challenging problem of holding onto our heritage listed buildings. Most concerning to me as an artist is that while many people value the structures which built our societies, others demand to tear them down in order to maximize a financial return on that piece of land. We must protect these structure for future generations, they hold great value in creating interest in our cultures and history. Much like the Pyramids or Parthenon, people travel great distances to see these rare sights which will slowly disappear if we don't continue to place importance on them. When government struggles with population growth, the temptation to allow developers permission to remove these memories from our landscape is significant. We must appreciate these icons of our culture, their textures, the stories behind them and embrace what they can mean to us today and in the future.  From the creative point of view the buildings stand almost as opposing structures, or reflections. Portraying the similarities between cultures whilst separated by a virtual equator through the center of each piece. It gives the viewer the opportunity to consider how these structures in Hong Kong and Brisbane share so many things in common but are so dramatically far apart. Human nature often is a journey of finding people just like us, no matter where we are on earth. We are drawn together by how we look, talk, think and feel. And so on these canvas artworks, I am drawing together how our cultures can be drawn together, and how enjoying this art with each other, we are drawn together even though we can be so very different. The objective of my art, is to remove the symbolic walls around us. In turn, the walls we live with every day are there to protect us from the elements and hold up the roof that covers us, but when we hang artworks, we don't see the walls anymore, we see the art and the message within.
OR visit New Farm Framing in Newstead if you simply must touch one!
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