Pictures of some layers under the paintings….

Photos of painted walls at Beiro Bar

Walls of Beiro Bar designed and painted by me, Rebecca Painter and Shu Xian Wong:

Painting the walls at Beiro Bar

Me, Shu Xian Wong and Rebecca Painter are invited to paint the walls at Beiro Bar in melbourne.  Can’t wait! Flights, paint and accomo paid for… Unfortunately I won’t be painting something too abstract like my paintings as the patrons might get too tripped out whilst tipsy ;(

Photos on MX newspaper

Photos published on mx newspaper this year, one for Slyvia Schwenk performance for Artereal and the other a promo for my exhibition at Global Gallery!

Opening night at Global Gallery

Opening night at Global Gallery went well! Me, Shu Xian Wong and Rebecca Painter rushed the installation, but it all turned out. We hung the photos and stuck the Chinese funeral paper on the wall and projected the animation on top of it. The animation took a while, it was a stop frame animation of me and rebecca with Carribean and Chinese calligraphy over our skin like it was growing…..

Triptych – Global Gallery

Triptych

Gallery: Global Gallery

5 Comber Street, Paddington, Sydney 2021

T: +612 9360 5728
E: info@globalgallery.com.au

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Artists: Rebecca Painter, Shi Wah Tse and Shuxian Wong

Dates: Exhibition opening Wednesday 29th September, 6-8pm continuing till Sunday the 10th October.

Meet the artists: saturday 9th october, 2-4pm

A collection of three abstract painters work that investigate and explore the boundaries of painting through techniques and application of layering, medium, texture, and colour.

Rebecca Painter ’s mixed media paintings explore the boundaries of painting illustrated by ideas of process, texture, layering and use of colour. Investigating the theme of hybridity and paleontology through the exploration of surface, casting and trapped subject matter, Painter likens her work to that of museum specimens.

Shi Wah Tse’ s brightly coloured abstract paintings explore contemporary notions about the act and art of painting. The proliferation of new media, performance and installation art, and notions of ‘the death of painting’ has led Shi Wah to question; ‘Is abstract painting still a relevant and engaging art form in today’s contemporary framework?’

Shuxian Wong explores and experiments with the technical and physical attributes of paint. Combining mediums from acrylic paint to recycled glass and paper mache, textural reliefs are built-up on the canvas. Abstract depictions of the artists’ cultural roots juxtaposed with contemporary memoirs of life in Sydney are presented in a montage of small canvases.

Shi Wah and Rebecca Painter have also experimented with different mediums such as photography/performance and this is shown in their recent conceptual. The series ‘Open Spaces’ of photography, performance and animation explores the notion of co-existence of hybridity and being Chinese/Australian and Caribbean/English. This is explored through the mixture of glossy photography, animation and pop commercialism infused with Chinese funeral money and traditional Caribbean calligraphy.

Installing tape work

the painted masking tapes were all joined together in one long roll onto a blank masking tape roll and it rolled from the gallery onto king street newtown. i had to ask the hair dressing store and accountants next door if it was ok with them in case someone tripped over, but they were fine with it.

Opening night ATVP – Eclecticism

Opening night At the Vanishing Point, our show Eclecticism with Nicole, Jess, Rebecca, Shu, me and Tony.

Mural at newtown

i was offered to do a mural to hang outside ATVP in the streets of Newtown. The other 2 murals before were heaps graffiti and guyish and cool. they looked good, but i didnt want to do something realli fine artsy or serious or graffiti or too cool. So i got Shu Xian Wong to help me paint something too cutesy and too girly and too kitsch – hello kitty toaster.

It was all good to hang until the director told me hello kitty is trademarked and they could get sued. So no go, and since i’m leaving this thursday no time to re-paint it ;(

First paintings after a 2 year break

I think a break does something to the painting, I couldnt really pick up from where I left off, as in I can’t find time to paint regulary so the process is different. But started 3 paintings at the same time, 1 turned out yellow and safe, the other blue like a fridge and the other crazy swirls. yellow was finished first(april 2010), blue fridge second(may 2010), swirl last(june 2010…last week). each around a month apart.



then the yellow one got finished from one of the above canvases:

then other 2 kept going then one became the blue fridge:

And finally the 3rd swirl canvas was finished: