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2006 PICTURING the SEA
The "Indian Ocean Series – Empty Ocean Pages" is based on six map pages from the 1996 Perth UBD which are empty but for ocean. A breaking wave off City Beach fills the empty ocean pages in INDIAN OCEAN - WAVE. The area surrounding the six pages is a painting of the blue map squares, in a mix of phthalo cerulean blue, black and white, the proportions of which changed slightly at each sitting accounting for the colour variations across the painting.
INDIAN OCEAN - BOATS fills the same empty ocean pages with refugee boats which have been found in Australian waters.
Detail: INDIAN OCEAN - BOATS
INDIAN OCEAN - WAVE
2001
70 x 176 cm
oil on linen
INDIAN OCEAN - BOATS
2005
70 x 176 cm
oil on canvas
INDIAN OCEAN - CYCLONES
2017
6 units
each 20 x 18.5 cm
oil on canvas
Private collection France
INDIAN OCEAN SERIES - EMPTY OCEAN PAGES
The "Indian Ocean Series – Empty Ocean Pages" is based on six map pages from the 1996 Perth UBD which are empty but for ocean. A breaking wave off City Beach fills the empty ocean pages in INDIAN OCEAN - WAVE. The area surrounding the six pages is a painting of the blue map squares, in a mix of phthalo cerulean blue, black and white, the proportions of which changed slightly at each sitting accounting for the colour variations across the painting.
INDIAN OCEAN - BOATS fills the same empty ocean pages with refugee boats which have been found in Australian waters.
Detail: INDIAN OCEAN - BOATS
INDIAN OCEAN - WAVE
2001
70 x 176 cm
oil on linen
INDIAN OCEAN - BOATS
2005
70 x 176 cm
oil on canvas
INDIAN OCEAN - CYCLONES
2017
6 units
each 20 x 18.5 cm
oil on canvas
Private collection France