David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop

David Rankin 'Brown Lily' popBrown Lily is a portrait of David Rankins wife, Lily Brett. An author and Holocaust survivor, Rankin is profoundly inspired by his wifes life, illustrating two of her books about the Holocaust and producing a series pivoted around Jewish and matrimonial themes. This particular work (in a different colour) even graced the cover of Brett's 2021 memoir 'Old Seems to be Other People'. Wide eyed, world weary and washed in colour, Rankins depiction is a

tonal shifts and calligraphic movement generate a pictorial field that feels at once spontaneous and resolved

They cluster in negative space

turning the caterpillar into Dracula while nearby

Kemp’s ‘As above

Campbell is represented across national and international collections

characterised by a fusion of the mundane – even suburban – and surreal

make no mistake - these works are from the here and now

combining European and Antipodean elements

It was the setting for some of Blackman's boldest printmaking experiments

Lawry draws from her experience of witnessing the Mallacoota forest following the bushfires of summer 2019 and 2020

Dimensions: 48 x 42 cm

It will clear the mind