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'HOMESCAPES'
 
curated by Amber Creswell Bell at St Cloche Gallery, Paddington
27th September - 8th October 2017

Please contact Amber Creswell Bell for all sales at:  0414 747 761
or see all the images at: http://www.ambercreswell.com/homescapes-alison-mackay/

"Paint is like an additional sense for me - it's the way I feel and explore objects, their textures, shapes and surfaces. Painting is how I get to know things"

Below: Japanese Pots Oil on birch panel                    Geisha with Dying Flowers Oil on canvas               Dying Flowers Oil on canvas
40cm x 40cm framed $850- SOLD.                                    40cm x 40cm framed $850- SOLD                               50cm x 50cm framed $950-SOLD
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Below: Geraniums Oil on wood panel
  28cm x 28cm framed $650-  SOLD
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Fish and Geisha Oil on wood panel
28cm x 28cm framed $650- SOLD
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Whiting and Garfish Oil on wood panel
28cm x 28cm framed $650-  SOLD
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Below: Roadside Flowers with Emily Book    Chops, Tongs, Glass Oil on birch panel                    Blackfish with Dying Flowers Oil on birch panel
Oil on canvas 91cm x 62cm unframed $1,400-            60cm x 60cm framed $1,100- SOLD                          50cm x 50cm framed $950-SOLD
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Below: Mackerel with Coffee Pot Oil on Masonite   Sake Tray with Geisha Oil on birch panel           Perch with Chopsticks Oil on wood panel
30cm x 30cm framed $700- SOLD                                       50cm x 50cm framed $950-SOLD                              30cm x 30cm framed $700- SOLD
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Below: White Orchid with Striped Cloth                                                        Lamb Racks with Striped Cloth Oil on birch panel   
Oil on birch panel framed 47cm x 34cm $880- SOLD                                           47cm x 34 cm framed $880-SOLD                                
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Alison Mackay’s art celebrates and explores objects and the use of paint. The paint itself is as important as the subject matter – its movement and textures become the language for describing volumes and surfaces. Her subject matter is what surrounds her; the stuff of life in its random complexity, ordinariness and – occasionally - eccentricity.  
 
Whilst visual aesthetic is important to Alison, her work deals more with obsession than decoration. Her repeated studies of objects – a particular cut of meat, glass bottles, dying flowers, books, fish, cutlery, the pattern in a cloth – all show a compulsion to decipher their structure and fabric; to translate their being into paint. 
 
Although Alison’s work has an honesty derived from the familiarity of its subject matter and the singularity of its focus, it is not simple.  Rather, it is a distillation of a moment in a life, achieved through an object observed, explored and - quite often - celebrated.  
 
Alison Mackay is based near Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast.
Her works have been finalists in several national art prizes including The Mosman Art Prize, The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, The Portia Geach Memorial Award, The NSW Parliament’s Plein Air Prize, the Black Swan portraiture prize and The Gallipoli Prize.  She was the winner of the Waverley Works on Paper prize and The Fisher’s Ghost Prize for traditional work.
 
Alison’s work has been shown throughout Australia and overseas.

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