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Iris Scott: The Big Wonderful

Past exhibition
29 May - 12 July 2020
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Iris Scott, Kookaburra Nightndayle, 2020

Iris Scott

Kookaburra Nightndayle, 2020
Oil on canvas
182.9 x 243.8 cm
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Work on this piece began during the Australian brush fires that ravaged eastern Australia beginning June of 2019. The glow on the horizon subtly alludes to these origins, as the...
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Work on this piece began during the Australian brush fires that ravaged eastern Australia beginning June of 2019. The glow on the horizon subtly alludes to these origins, as the Kookaburra looks back with a knowing, defiant eye. The proportions of the bird have been modified to create a reimagined creature with a tail of textile-like qualities. The play of light in the sky is suggestive of a time-lapse, as if the bird has been perched here as night passes into day. Just as the light is captured here in its temporal dynamism, the landscape also evokes diasporic (spread out) mastery with imagined cherry blossom flowers capturing the light from Japan, a nod to Mt. Pedernal in New Mexico, brought together in the Australian brush.
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Primary market artwork directly from the artist

Exhibitions

Iris Scott: The Big Wonderful, Artsy online exclusive May 27 – June 30 2020

Literature

Iris Scott’s The Big Wonderful, by Vittoria Benzine, Noah Becker’s Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, May 2020
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