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Bronwyn Davies
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The body in question1999-2005
This body of ours.something we read each day. We use it to store information; we use it to
express ourselves.
In the search for universal symbols that will convey emotional meaning, the body is something
I turn to time and again.
The gesture, the look, not a portrait, not even a whole, just a glimpse of something that says
much morebodies, we all have them.
Life drawing is to the artist as playing scales is for musicians. It helps to hone the eye and
sharpen ones practice.
Bronwyn Davies has been drawing from life since she was 12 years old. Her work is based on
interpretations of the world as seen through the body. She uses texture and a variety of
traditional and avant- garde materials to create her mixed media drawings. Bronwyn has been
involved with the Tamborine Mountain festival of arts, the Plink- Age Youth Festival, and most
recently was director of the Evolution Festival Mixed Media Experiments with Truth. She is
convenor of world music events at Club Zamia and is currently studying for a grad dip in Arts
Management. She has Exhibited throughout Qld and her work is held in private and corporate
collections throughout Australia. She dreams of drawing every day and running an arts
collective called Hippy Heaven!
Artist statement from 2003
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Cocoon mixed media on paper70X 100 cm SOLD Thigh conte on paper 70 x100cm SOLD Bent mixed media drawing onpaper 27 x 35 cm Framed $150
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remote mixed media drawingon paper 100 x 70 cm Unframed$150
Torch Mixed media on canvasSOLD
The Seer- mixed media drawingon paper 100 x 70 cm Unframed $150
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Torn between giveand take mixed media drawingon paper 70 x 100 cm Framed $500
Anima conte on canvas SOLD Sketch drawing on paper SOLD
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Speak no evil mixed mediadrawing on muslin and paper 25 x32 cmunframed $75
Thought fox mixed mediadrawing on canvas and paper 25 x32 cm unframed $75
Mood indigo mixed mediadrawing on paper 70 x 100 cmunframed $300
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Twisted mixed media drawingon paper SOLD The Question drawing onpaper 70 x 100 cm unframed $200 Squeeze Mixed media drawingUnframed 28 x 35 cm $75
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Fist mixed media drawing 100 x 70 cm SOLDWritten mixed media drawing on paper 150 x 90 cmSOLD
Crossed mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70 cmUnframed $300
Submission mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70cm unframed $300
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Dreamscape- Mixed media drawing on canvas 150 x100 cm $900
Cool to the touch conte on paper 100x 70 cmFramed $800
Eros- mixed media drawing on paper SOLDThe touch mixed media drawing on canvas 150 x 90cm Framed $1200
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Hiddenmixed media on
drawing board Framed with Glass$900
Promise- mixed media drawing
on canvas and paper 150 x 220 cm$1800
Mapping the greatdivide mixed media, oils andconte on canvas and paper 120 x170 cm $ 1600
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The lovers- Oils on Canvas 100 cm x 150 cm $900
From 1997-2000 I shared a studio with fellow artist Kate French. The
studio was next to an avocado orchard behind a daggy brick box of a
house. It was a dream studio; triple garage size, roller door, plenty of
light, space to stand back from your work.
I lived down the road: a newly single mother with 3 young children. Kate
and her family lived nearby.
In the house at the front lived a writer, an ex policeman, who was writing
biographies of serial murderers on the internet.
It was a bohemian time.
Kate worked on her sculpture and I worked on my paintings and drawings.
I was always broke. People were always dropping in, there was alwayslaughter, singing and music. Kate had just started learning guitar and she
loved it. She bought old guitars, stripped them back and then painted
them.
I wanted to call the space legs off the wall studio. It was such a crazy,
happy space and though we were both poor, we both were very creative at
that time.
I painted the portrait of Kate to try and capture
some of her love of life and music at that time.
In 2000 there was a storm on the mountain
and the painting fell over and got a slight L-
shaped tear that was professionally repaired.
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On a clear day you can fly (above left) acrylic and pastels on paper Sold
The face you cant hold (Below right) conte andcharcoal on paper 150 x 120 cm Framed $1200
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Looking for universal symbols2005-2007
I had never thought of my studies of the body to be overtly sexual, more about an exploration of how the body can convey
certain meanings through the body language and posture. The work using the body was problematic in that different cultures
approached body language with varied understndings.
In my search for more universally understood images to convey meaning I turned to colour. Could colour conjure up in visual
language what I wanted to express?
This too had its problems. New age colour therapy prescribed numerous alternative meanings and attibutes to colour, and my
brush with the Evolution festival and a new partner with a more scientific background saw me looking at colour through the
long lens of evolution and how colours are perceived in nature as indicators of danger or abundance.
I looked to pattern and ritual to understand how various cultures embellish and create patterns that carry with them cultural
information and meaning.
Living on Tamborine Mountain ultimately I drew on the natural world for inspiration.
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Raw (this page tope left) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500
Reflection (this page top right) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500
New (this page bottom left) acrylic on canvas SOLD
Hope (Next page top left) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500
Endless (Next page top right) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500
Glow (Next page bottom left) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500
Fog(Next page bottom right) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500
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Wood carving drawing on paper $300 unframed
Patterns: the way we
leave our mark and
the patterns we
make, say a lotabout the culture we
are in and the
people we are.
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Doors oil on canvas 60 x 90cm $400Gatewaymixed media on canvas 100 x 120cm $500
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Detailmixed media drawing on canvas and paper with stitching 120 x 100 cm $2000
12 letters to my God
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Labyrinth Mixed media drawing with stitching on paper and canvas SOLD
From the
exhibition art
of the heroes
journey(a community event reflecting on
Mental health)
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Seed charcoal and conte onpaper $700
Walking with JudithWright (Detail) mixedmedia painting on paper and canvas
Hope mixed media on paperSOLD
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Byron Landscape water colour ink and conte onpaper 100 x 80 cm framed $700
Feather mixed media painting on canvas SOLD
Flame Tree drawing on canvas 3 panels: 3 metres x150 cm metres $2600
Walking with Judith Wright mixed media oncanvas and paper 200 x 120 cm $2200
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Silent Rage mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70 cm unframed $400
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The sentinels mixed media on canvas 124 x 88 cm $2000
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Maps and Traces2009-2010
Maps: a tool for navigation Traces: what is left behind
In 2009 I undertook a Masters in Contemporary Art at the University of Tasmania.
My research thesis : How does the interpretation of Place through the arts contribute to tolerance, social change and
building community.
My visual research : a visual history of the Scenic Rim. Maps and Traces.
Early Life -drawings studies for future work on paper depicting the beginning of life on earth
Crucible - Scenic Rim forged in a Crucible of 2 volcanoes
Myth and Legend- Kurdaitcha shoes found in a local museum
Indentured Labour- Kanaka- the first south Sea Islanders were brought into Townsvale to farm cotton
Explorers -a set of illustrated collectors box
Bilin- King of logan and Pimpama
Diaspora - we are all boat people 40 small canvases
War- Digger memorial
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3.8 billion years of simple cells,.3 billion years of photosynthesis,2 billionyears of complex cells, 1 billion years of multicellular life, 600 million years
of simple animals, 570 years of arthropods, 550 million years of complex
animal, 500 million years offfish and proto-amphibians, 475 years of land
plants, 400 million years of insects and seeds, 300 million years of
reptiles, 200 million years of mammals, 150 million years of birds, 130
million years of flowers, 65 million years since the non-avian dinosaurs
died out, 2.5 million years since the appearance of the genus Homo,200,000 since humans started looking like they do today, 25,000 years
since Neanderthals died out.
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Early life series drawings on paper unframed 35 x 28 cm $100
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2 volcanic eruptions . Mount Warning erupts 23 million years ago. Focal peak shield Mt Barney erupts 20 million years ago
Great southern land has split and Australia separated, drifting northwards, warm, wet, lush rainforest, enormous richness and variety of
plant life. When metamorphic rock weathers they form heavy red to yellow clay soils. Basalt weathers down to neutral and highly fertile
read loamy soils. The big scrub.
Crucible oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm $1800
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Kurdaitcha men magic men Bone pointer
These shoes are made of emu feathers stuck together in a solid mass with human blood and so shaped that there can be no distinguishing toe from heel
and thus the direction of the Kurdaitcha cannot be traced. Before they are attached to the feet the little toe of the left foot must be dislocated and cut. A
small blood-suckinglizard collects this blood which is highly magical and stores it in readiness for the making of other shoes. Well made Kurdaitcha shoes
have an opening on one side to accommodate the disjointed toe. Chanting accompanies this procedure. The shoes are bidden to cling well to the feet of
the Kurdaitcha and to leave no trace behind them.
Elizabeth Durack 1954
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Detail from kurdaitcha
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Kurdaitcha oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm $1800
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Indentured labour
South Sea Islanders
Robert Towns
Henry Ross Lewin
Sandalwood
Cotton
LabourSugar
belonging
Taken
gone
Kanaka mixed media drawing with stitching on canvas and paper 120 x 90 cm NFS
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Explorers Installation mixed media drawings on paper and wood $500 set
Beware
ofopening
a
pandorasbox
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Respected by his people
King of the Logan and Pimpama
Died at Deebing Creek Mission
Bilin Oil and charcoal on canvas36 x 48$1800
detail
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(left - detail) Mixed media drawing on paper from Maps and Traces $200 unframed
DiasporaMigrant #1
Side view
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( left - detail) Mixed media drawing on paper from Maps and Traces $200 unframed
Migrant #2
Front view
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detailDiaspora 40 x 5 inch squarecanvas with songline stitching$1800
Convict
SoldierIrish
German
Chinese
South Sea Islander
Afghan
orphan
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Digger oil and mixed media with stitching on canvas andmaps 36 x 48 inch $1800
detail
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Jack and Judith oil and mixed media with stitching on canvas and maps 36 x 48 inch $1800
Jack Mackinney and JudithWright
The philosopher and the poet
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detail