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Study of a Youth 2012

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Group Show: Painting 11

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Opening this Friday 01 July at Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne:

Painting 11 (There will be no skulls in this exhibition)

Painting previews of my most recent works, Asilo III and Figure 0611:

Opening Night: Friday 01, July 6 - 8 PM. Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne 

2011-06-21: The Abandoned Possibility

"As well as photographs and printed images, there is a considerable collection of paintings in various stages of destruction. Over a hundred slashed canvasses...Bacon acknowledged that he encountered problems when the paint became too clogged on the surface. When he couldn't push it any further, he would cut it up."

~Barbara Dawson |  Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty, p.66-67

This is reassuring and inspirational, especially in the presence of abandoned and destroyed works. In response to this, excavating old, fragile or previously discarded images (and there's no shortage of these) can offer up continued fodder for painting. Distance and time can shift perspectives and insights. Observation, awareness and resourcefulness are key.

Source image taken by John Deakin c.1933:

Francis Bacon source Image: John Deakin c. 1963