Description
Sydney 08.04 Reuters
Painting of a bird’s eye view of dramatic flooding in the district of Sydney, Australia. The floods in Australia were increasing in intensity, as directly attributed to the effects of climate change. This image, published on Reuters 8th April 2022, shows a flooded and abandoned van in the middle of some trees, all roads obliterated by flood water, the water coloured by the red earth below it.
It was painted as part of a project I undertook in 2022 to paint a year of reportage images on the effects of climate change. I painted 46 works in 12 months. You can read more about the project in my News section. From October 2023 – April 2024 the entire project titled You And I Are Earth was exhibited at Firstsite Museum and Gallery in Colchester, Essex, Gallery East in Suffolk, and Anteros in Norwich.
My aim in painting the project was to put a pause on these dramatic images, which are fed to us through our televisions and phones, and can pass us by in under a second. I wanted to see what an entire year of my edit of these images would look like. Spending time with each had a profound effect on me.
All panels are oil on gesso primed braced wood panels, 30 x 40 x 2cm, with clean natural wood edges, ready to hang.
10% of this sale will be donated to Greenpeace.
