Same, same...

Same, same but different...

Alison Mackay at Project Gallery 90, Sydney
90, Oxford Street, Paddington from Thursday 30th September
If you'd like to see my head talking about his show you can click on this link to:
Exhibition with Richard Morecroft on Youtube
Or view gallery catalogue at: www.projectgallery90.com/

Bottles and Banksias Oil on birch panel 70cm x 60cm $1400- (framed)
SOLD

Yellow Fish in glasses 70cm x 60cm Oil on birch panel $1,400- (framed) SOLD

Yellow Oysters Oil on stretched canvas 40cm x40cm unframed $900- SOLD

Still life with Hardyheads 60cm x 60cm Oil on birch panel framed $1,300- SOLD

Foraged flowers Oil on birch panel 30cm x30cm unframed $750- SOLD

Black Whiting 70cm x 60cm Oil on board framed $1,400- SOLD

Bird on yellow cloth Oil on birch panel 47cm x34cm unframed $950-

Green Chair and Blue Flanny Oil on stretched linen 50cm x 40cm unframed $990-

Gin and Banksias 70cm x60cm Oil on birch panel framed $1,400 SOLD

Foraged Flowers on table Oil on birch panel 55cm x 60cm unframed $1,150- SOLD

Dark Places Oil on 9 birch panels 122cmx122cm framed $2500- SOLD

Chops in glass 101cm x 91cm Oil on stretched canvas unframed $1,800- SOLD

A Woman's Work... Oil on birch panel 47cm x34cm unframed $950-
SOLD

Hakea in Bottles 25cm x 20cm Oil on birch panel unframed $650- SOLD

Whiting in colander 40cm x 40cm Oil on birch panel unframed $900- SOLD

Blooms on Book Oil on birch panel 70cm x 40cm unframed $1,050- SOLD

Yellow Whiting with Japanese Knife Oil on stretched canvas 121cm x 91cm unframed $1,800- SOLD

Chair with Red flanny and plug 40cm x50cm unframed $990-

Gurnard with Knife Oil on birch panel 50cm x 50cm framed $1,150- SOLD

Last Gardenia Oil on birch panel 40cm x 40cm unframed $900- SOLD

Foraged Flowers and plug Oil on stretched linen 45cm x 60cm unframed $1,050- SOLD

Lollipop Oil on birch panel 40cm x 40cm unframed $900- SOLD

“Abstract” literally means to draw from, or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract… a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference.
Richard Diebenkorn

Nothing is more abstract than reality.
Giorgio Morandi

I’ve described myself as a ‘still life painter’ for some years, but now I find the distinctions between genres blur and overlap.
For me, first and last, it’s about paint. Whether the painted surface is used to explore tangible objects or landscapes, or whether it evokes emotions, ideas or the ineffable - it’s all paint.
Paint which has to be pushed around until it arrives in the right place. And the result is just one iteration from an infinity of possible paintings, opened up brushstroke by brushstroke.
So these paintings, although recognisable as still life and abstract, are to me, all limbs of one body. They are the same but different.