Arts
Bett Gallery: Sue Lovegrove
Spur-winged Plover – Standing on the World (Vanellus miles) 2015 (after Port Jackson painter 1788, Australia), watercolour, gouache, ink, traditional pigments & shell gold on Indian manuscript paper, 21 x 15cm
SUE LOVEGROVE
OPENING FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2016, 6-8PM
GUEST SPEAKER: DR SALLY BRYANT
MANAGER, CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PLANNING, TASMANIAN LAND CONSERVANCY
EXHIBITION CONTINUES TO 1 FEBRUARY 2016
This series of manuscript paintings by Sue Lovegrove evolved from research into two disparate but strangely similar traditions of natural history painting from two entirely different cultures,12th Century Persia and 18th Century Colonial Australia. Lovegrove has adapted and incorporated her vision of birds that she knows and has strong relationships with from her home in rural Tasmania, into the contexts of Persian and Mughal miniatures that celebrate the language of birds, while telling a story of threat and optimistic survival.
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Emma Bett, Bett Gallery