Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence program, August 2019
The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence program is at Bundanon in the Shoalhaven, on Wodi Wodi land, NSW Australia, a generous gift from artist Arthur Boyd and his family. There are four visual artist studios, a writers cottage, a musician cottage and a dance studio.
During this residency Nic was open to influence of this place and time. She commenced three projects at Bundanon:
- utilising painting as a symbolic or metaphoric vehicle for contemplating issues of environmental hope and loss where she paired objects such as wombat droppings and banksia cones with treasures from home such as kitchen gadgets and her children toys to create still life paintings;
- painting interiors of Bundanon with all their creature things, which with many of her still life paintings, became part of Still and Within, 2019 at Project Gallery 90; and
- enacting a daily rhythm of charcoal impressions of the wombats of Bundanon.
During this residency Nic was open to influence of this place and time. She commenced three projects at Bundanon:
- utilising painting as a symbolic or metaphoric vehicle for contemplating issues of environmental hope and loss where she paired objects such as wombat droppings and banksia cones with treasures from home such as kitchen gadgets and her children toys to create still life paintings;
- painting interiors of Bundanon with all their creature things, which with many of her still life paintings, became part of Still and Within, 2019 at Project Gallery 90; and
- enacting a daily rhythm of charcoal impressions of the wombats of Bundanon.
From Nic's blog ...
"... We found ourselves out with the rising of the full moon over the Bundanon landscape, Doug Helsop was plein air thinking … and drawing too, I was in my rhythm of appreciating a wombat, this time following the moon ..."
Still life mini-series propelled by my Bundanon Artist in Residence program ...
The daily rhythm of wombat impressions ...
Nic created these compilation of sketches during a Bundanon Artist in Residence Program. They mark a rhythm of her time there. Each afternoon, with a strip of watercolour squares in hand and with the rising of the wombats from the burrow under the complex, she returned to draw these wombats.
Within the Bundanon scenes ...
