ROD GRAY

three paintings which you can view here or go to http://lindenarts.org for open gallery details and conditions. sales via linden new art.

This work, Updraft,  is part of a project I’ve commenced examining fire in it’s role as a catalyst for transformation in the environment. Fire profoundly affects the human and animal populations in cycles of destruction and regeneration. This has long been the orbit of my artwork but over the coming year I plan to go much further into the ‘haze’ of fire and it’s environmental, mythological, and creative resonance. In this process I propose to simulate and reflect on this catalytic activity in a large range of works spanning sculpture, artist books, fire effigy videos and paintings. 

BirdFireHuman will map a Human-Animal convergence. This fire-fusing of Bird-Human DNA constitutes a fictional pseudo-science: OrnithAnthroPyrocology , the hypothesis of the proposal…more to come. 

 

These four decapitated rogues were in the Linden Postcard Show over summer

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InfernoMan Oil on canvas 20 x 25 cm 2019

MobsterLobster Oil on Canvas 20 x 25 cm 2019

Thinking of the mythic almost alchemical potential of the world’s most vital books. How they get burnt, and also etch, burning into the mind’s eye never to be forgotten.

On exhibition in IMAGE AND TEXT the Mildura Writer’s Festival Art Exhibition at The Art Vault

Open July 17

My great great grandfather D L Milne travelled the world as a ship’s carpenter from Montrose, Scotland, before arriving in Australia.

 

Passing man lighting up other side of venetians at the end of a hard working day

More Bombings in the middle east this week.. more wrath…

Wrath     oil on canvas 2017

There was a long spate of hedge fires in the 80’s and 90’s in Melbourne’s leafy burbs. Not sure if they ever caught those involved.