Blackwood Lane studio    

 Blackwood Lane Studio, Gembrook, Victoria

About my exhibition

I renamed Dandenong as “Construction City,”  for my new show of paintings at the Walker Street Gallery in August. As the community of Dandenong well knows, the city has been undergoing a rapid urban renewal program, that whilst causing temporary inconvenience, promises a much improved future.

I see “Change is a process.”  “We remember what existed before and what there is now, but seldom recall or record the intermediary process involved.”

In my exhibition, ‘Construction City’  I record the building workers, their hard hats and boots, the scaffolding and safety tape, the temporary and the provisional architecture of the street during the redevelopment process.

As the building works in Dandenong evolved and with the support of VicUrban and the City of Greater Dandenong I was at work with my camera and sketchpad.

The exhibition features paintings, done in a sketched, illustrative style which is how I often work is one well suited to this subject matter. The exhibition will also reveal the development process of the paintings by including reference photographs which I took.

The work can be seen at Walker St. Gallery, beginning 4 August and will close on 3 Sept.

 

Address: Cnr. Walker & Robinson Streets, Dandenong 3175

Phone: 03 9706 8441

 

Opening hours: 11 am -5pm   Mon- Fri,   11 – 3pm Saturday

 

The photo shows a part of my Gallery which adjoins my studio in Gembrook.

You can also see a part of 4 hectares of garden with a collection of unusual native and exotic trees which surround us.