Acrylic, oil pastel and thread on paper on canvas 75x60
2012
Winnie, who has lived in my street in Newtown for more
than 80 years tells stories of every factory that was within a few miles of our
place. People walked to work in glove factories, box factories bread and boot
factories.
By the time I moved into Newtown in the 1990’s most of
those factories housed auto repairs, and in the past 20 years they have all
disappeared.
This piece begins with an oil pastel rubbing on rice
paper I did on my favourite machine on Cockatoo
Island. I superimposed a hand drawn map of Newtown (thanks Google maps!), and
added some acrylic washes.
With its strong
golden yellows and oranges the work literally shines like the sun.
