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JULIA PEDDIE: ART JAMBUTTER FACTORY ARTS CENTRE, COOROY
WED JUNE 7th JUNE – SUN JUNE 11th All Artwork for sale, 20% goes to the Butter Factory Arts Centre. |
This exhibition is dedicated to my loving parents Jim and Rosemary Peddie,
celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 1st June 2023
celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 1st June 2023
Welcome to my Art Jam. I will be LIVE at the Butter Factory from 10am to 3pm daily, demonstrating my arts practise and facilitating a community art piece. If you are in the area, please drop in and see the following work on show.
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In this Facebook Live video I talk through each of the gallery 'rooms' below. They have been grouped into The Survivors, Fragments, FNQ, Therapeutic works and New Works.
In the artist statement I make reference to Autumn Queen etc, these can all been seen among others on my Gallery page. Most of the original water colours are still available, but don't form part of this exhibition. I have included two older works Mr Ree and Uluru Dreaming in the show, these also appear on my Gallery page. |
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If the caption is covering the image on your device, click the image in the slideshow to open without text.
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ARTIST STATEMENTI have had a long break from public exhibiting due to a long recovery process from the Black Saturday bushfires (2009 Victoria), a decade of unstable housing and then had heart failure four years ago. I am blessed to have met my wonderful husband in that time. We live on an organic farm in Woombye, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. My last public exhibitions of significance were in the Bushfire Commission Gallery exhibition (2009) and Marysville Art Show (2011).
Having carted around my remaining paintings, etchings, sketchbooks and diaries for a decade (while moving 25 times) I lost them all in a shed fire in 2020. Three years later I am finally back in my studio, and have begun creating a new body of work Fragments with burnt pages from my diaries and sketchbooks from that shed fire. I will be working on a second collection of fire fragments during the Live show and will be posting on my Facebook page (@JuliaPeddie) throughout the show. These will also be for sale (unframed). While Queensland closed its air border during the worst of the hysteria of the last three years, we took three lovely long holidays to FNQ (Far North Queensland). The rainforest and powerful waterfalls have such healing powers. The colours and lushness re-ignited my inner artist. After our first trip I returned home to our Syntropic farm (@LighthouseRegenerativeFarm) and my semi-abstract style morphed into semi-figurative works. Imagined elemental beings jumped off the page, including the Fun Guy, Mycellium Man and the Autumn Queen. I exhibited these in my studio at our Equinox gathering in 2022 and sold several pieces. During our last trip north I was determined to paint in acrylics, rather than coloured inks and gouache. I found this challenging and the colours flat. During this process I found the 'Spirit of the land' emerging through the paint. As an intuitive and imaginative painter, I entertained the notion that the aboriginal ancestors were lining up, wanting to be painted next. I am still wondering why, and if they have a message for me that I might have missed! I am currently in a process of redefining my style. Having struggled with acrylics, I returned to oil painting - the colours are brilliant and so lovely to paint with, however my process of layering and 'pushing and pulling' highlights and shadows, is difficult with such a slow drying medium. I have completed just two new oil paintings Grandmother Kelp and Luna eclipses Sol. I recently signed up with Judy Woods Art from New Zealand, and am thoroughly enjoying her tuition. Her process involves collage, acrylics, layering and mark making. It is so exciting to open yourself to a new process after 30 years! I have just begun using this process in my work, and will be demonstrating it during the Art Jam.
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For all sales enquiries please call or text Julia on 0405 331 584.
I can send through photos of framed works, and discuss freight options or collection arrangements.*
All work in this online exhibition will be on show at the Butter Factory Arts Centre from 7th to 11th June, 2023.
All purchases include a 20% sales commission, and payment will be made through the Butter Factory Arts Centre shop.
*Please note: marked prices do not include freight costs – varying from $30-$150, depending on size, weight and State.
International sales enquiries by quotation.
I can send through photos of framed works, and discuss freight options or collection arrangements.*
All work in this online exhibition will be on show at the Butter Factory Arts Centre from 7th to 11th June, 2023.
All purchases include a 20% sales commission, and payment will be made through the Butter Factory Arts Centre shop.
*Please note: marked prices do not include freight costs – varying from $30-$150, depending on size, weight and State.
International sales enquiries by quotation.
Catalogue
All the information and text on this web page is summarised in a 2 page catalogue supplied here as a PDF or 2 x jpeg files for your convenience. You might like to print a copy as you navigate each gallery slide show. Or just scroll on.
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The Survivors 2011
These four works are the lone survivors (from the 2020 shed fire) of a series I created during a painting sabbatical in 2011. I was immersed in the cool wet of the Yarra Valley and the Mornington Peninsula where I took long walks around the rugged shorelines of Merricks, the landscape of my childhood. It was a very healing period after running on adrenaline since the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.
There is a fourth in the series of small (11") square works, which will be exhibited but will not be for sale. These and lost works can be seen on my website's Gallery page in Past works.
These are all box framed with solid timber frames: $600
There is a fourth in the series of small (11") square works, which will be exhibited but will not be for sale. These and lost works can be seen on my website's Gallery page in Past works.
These are all box framed with solid timber frames: $600
If the caption is covering the image on your device, click the image in the slideshow to open without text.
Fragments 2023
These works are a series that I have thought about for three years, since our shed fire in 2020 in which I lost all my artwork, passports, Degrees, Certificates you name it. Having escaped the bushfires in tact, it seemed fire was determined to take it all.
I have kept sketch books and diaries since a teenager, and discovering fragments in the ashes led to a whole new perspective.
More work with diary fragments are yet to come, and will be worked on during the Butter Factory Art Jam.
Fragments 2023 series are timber framed with glass and mount board: $280
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
I have kept sketch books and diaries since a teenager, and discovering fragments in the ashes led to a whole new perspective.
More work with diary fragments are yet to come, and will be worked on during the Butter Factory Art Jam.
Fragments 2023 series are timber framed with glass and mount board: $280
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
Far North Queensland 2021 - 2022
Our last trip to FNQ took us to Cooktown, where the story of Captain Cook lives on in the local artwork we saw at the Hopevale Aboriginal Arts Centre. The original land is thoroughly alive and faces jump out of the rocks and voices whisper on the breeze. A white woman was speared at Spear Creek. There were 17,000 Chinese gold miners north of the Atherton. Cook stole the breeding turtles. Someone was taken by a croc paddling in the water... We can't wait to go back! I had an A4 canvas pad and tried my hand at acrylics.
A3 canvas works are framed with timber and professionally mounted: $220
Spirit of Spear Creek mount board & glass, timber framed: $420
Rainforest Immersion timber box frame: $960
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
A3 canvas works are framed with timber and professionally mounted: $220
Spirit of Spear Creek mount board & glass, timber framed: $420
Rainforest Immersion timber box frame: $960
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
Therapeutic works 2022-23
Working with visualisation, hypnosis and quantum healing, I have been on a path of self-discovery including work around integrating both the masculine and the feminine within. King Ju Ju (glass & timber framed), Silenced (oil, box framed) and Duality of Divinity (box framed) all deal with this theme.
Luna Eclipses Sol is another recent oil (box framed), and refers to Black Moon Lilith finding her voice in the underworld. Twit Flying is a musing over various realities in our environment.
Grandmother Kelp is my most recent oil started over a year ago, when I painted over a recycled canvas. Initially I took to the fresh white textured surface with coloured inks and began pushing and pulling my contrasts. I later returned and the King of the Gnomes appeared floating upon a tree stump among the bobbing coconuts. Naturally I turned the dribbles into kelp, and was reminded of the Kelp Coin people who claim growing kelp around every continent will take us back to pre-1990 emission levels* in one year (ironically making the entire carbon tax and credit scheme redundant)... and Grandmother Kelp was born, holding back the tidal wave of Climate Change corruption, saving the next generation of elementals from extinction.
* see snippet from the film 2040 here www.climatefoundation.org/
Prices vary, as marked.
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
Luna Eclipses Sol is another recent oil (box framed), and refers to Black Moon Lilith finding her voice in the underworld. Twit Flying is a musing over various realities in our environment.
Grandmother Kelp is my most recent oil started over a year ago, when I painted over a recycled canvas. Initially I took to the fresh white textured surface with coloured inks and began pushing and pulling my contrasts. I later returned and the King of the Gnomes appeared floating upon a tree stump among the bobbing coconuts. Naturally I turned the dribbles into kelp, and was reminded of the Kelp Coin people who claim growing kelp around every continent will take us back to pre-1990 emission levels* in one year (ironically making the entire carbon tax and credit scheme redundant)... and Grandmother Kelp was born, holding back the tidal wave of Climate Change corruption, saving the next generation of elementals from extinction.
* see snippet from the film 2040 here www.climatefoundation.org/
Prices vary, as marked.
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
New Works 2023 - Current exploration
I am in the process of learning some new abstract techniques using collage and acrylic with Judy Wood Art (NZ). I will be exploring some of these exercises during the Art Jam, and keen to share with the community.
These are my first pieces created with Judy's class. These unframed works can be easily posted and won't break the bank.
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
These are my first pieces created with Judy's class. These unframed works can be easily posted and won't break the bank.
Where paintings appear oblique, I have elected to not crop any of the painting, but have taken the photo on a slight angle.
