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Cirebon Pond 2
watercolour and collage on Arches paper
Framed size: 68cm x 124cm
$3700
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The first SE Asian country I ever visited
was Indonesia in 1988. I must confess it
was a major culture shock but it did
spark an enduring fascination with the
region.
I took away these memories: the gentle
sounds of gamelan, inky black night
skies, impossibly beautiful plants such
as lotus, magical batik and Chinoiserie
patterns. The bottom border of NZ koru
motifs works in with the Chinese cloud
background of the water. 7 fish
symbolise 'togetherness'
An unashamed celebration of
chinoiserie, Malpas style.
Camelias from Ian's tree, St Ives.
Loquat branch 'appropriated' from
St Peters.
Blue and white bowl from Vinnies.
Dragon teapot from Salvos and
artistic licence. Teacup from eBay.
Ginger jar from UK country fete.
Indonesian sarong backdrop
Pasifica
watercolour, ink and gouache on
canvas.
Size: 60.5cm x 71.5cm
$2700
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I didn't realise how unique the light
is downunder until I started
travelling. As I spent more and
more time in the UK, the odd trips
home were like a flash of colour and
light - even a winter's day could be
brighter than a Uk summer.
Indochine
watercolour, gouache and pencil on
a leaf of a French land sale
agreement document dated 1849.
Antique Australian koala stamp
Framed size 35.5cm x 43.5 cm
$600
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I first went to Vietnam and Laos in
2000 - I had a very hard time in
Vietnam: the locals weren't used to
solo Asian travellers at the time and
assumed I was a streetwalker so I
got hissed at a lot and abused for
my lack of Vietnamese. Other
people were very kind and just
curious.
Anyway, it is a beautiful place and
the French influence is everywhere:
the food is delicate and you can get
good coffee and bread, the women
are impossibly elegant and they
have wide, sweeping boulevards.
This image echoes those Indian and
Persian miniatures painted on old
manuscript pages.
Marmalade
Watercolour and gouache on paper.
Framed size: 30cm x 40cm
$540
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Mum
watercolour, collage and pencil on
paper
Framed size: 42cm x 50cm
$710
Begonias and geraniums from
Alexandria, Sydney. Ginger jars from
UK country fete. Teacup and saucer
from the Balgowlah antiques centre.
Malay sarong backdrop.
Old NZ postage stamp: eBay.
Mum's favourite colour was blue and
although we didn't have any ginger
jars in the house while I was growing
up, Mum did have some willow
pattern plates she used for 'best'. The
plants are the types that cuttings
would have been collected/distributed
by Mum and her circle of friends
during visiting eachother's houses for
afternoon tea sessions.
I have included a fragment of one of
her last letters to me. Mum was very
good at correspondence and I got into
the habit of writing regularly while I
was away at college in the 80s and
then wrote to mum until her death in
2011. This piece tickled me and is
quite an indicator of how Mum's mind
worked but also an insight into her
practicality: sentimental and loving
one second then brought down to
earth the next.
Dad
watercolour, pencil and gouache on
vellum, Will document of Esther Gibson
(Widow, of Cumberland, England),
dated 1800s
Framed size: 57cm x 46cm $790
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My father came from Leicester, England.
He did not have the secure, stable home
that I took for granted. He went to sea as (a
suspected underage), cabin boy as a young
teenager and was in the British Merchant
Navy in WWII. His ships took him right
around the Pacific Rim during the war and
I often think that to a young man from
working class England at that time,
travelling in the Pacific would have been
almost akin to explorers a few hundred
years before him - the completely foreign
sights he would have seen! He still wore his
navy issue sandals for many years
afterwards and quite often he would put a
knotted handkerchief on his head at the
beach to 'stir' us.
This is a gentle take on Dad - the
juxtaposition of the exotic and foreign with
the very old and traditional, English
document - the last will and testament.
Family Mart
(same same but different)
watercolour and pencil on Indian
Khadi paper
Framed size: 50cm x 62cm
$750
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Delicacy
watercolour, pencil and gouache on sewn
Indian Khadi paper
Framed size: 50cm x 62cm
$750
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Japonicas and butterflies from
Hillandale Gardens & Nursery. Tapa
cloth design adapted from PNG Tapa
cloth design, painted onto a fragment of
Antique French legal documentation
I've been identified as Asian and/or
Pacific Islander for as long as I can
remember. Some of the patterns and
motifs in both Asian and Pasifica textile
patterns seem to share the same origins
though the end result is very different.
Traditional Pacific Island art is often
categorized as primitive though the
techniques are complex and the skill level
requirement is high.
It is interesting to note that both Pacific
Tapa cloth and paper invented by the
Chinese both start from the bark of the
Mulberry tree
Words to live by
Ten little butterfly and moth images on the following pages:
These represent lessons I am learning in life - mostly lessons about my own behaviour and
how what I say/do can impact others after years of raging against perceived injustices
against my race/background.
We've all experienced ugly episodes in our lives - but sometimes, out of that ugliness comes
delicacy and beauty.
I'm not perfect - I still upset and offend but I'm learning...
Juliet Rosser
Director
CENTRAL PARK
28 BROADWAY CHIPPENDALE 2008
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