Brunswick Street Gallery: Group Show 2016

See also hand-painted works in this show.

The environment, our species' place in it and impact on it, has been a concern for me for mostly all my life.

With the professional quality of art materials required by the art industry, I have always allowed this creative pursuit to be one aspect of my life when I made an allowance to environmental concerns.  Very happily, I have recently discovered new materials in fine art shops which sympathise with my ethics: 100% recycled cotton rag papers; and have put these to use with passion.

Due to the high turnover of paper used in life drawing I have started, in the last year, working on cardboard boxes from my family home, creating what I call: Cardboard Box Collections.

Key Notes on works:

Butterflies: represent the short life cycle of many products and materials in our everyday lives.

Goddesses: a call for new religious myths and lores to focus on our connection to the earth and its inherent power.

Empathy: human understanding of our demands on the earth and her resources.

Places in Time: how one place can be changed over the course of time and how small our time, as a human race, has been on relation to the Earth's existence.

Please feel free to discuss the works with me. I would be happy to meet you at the gallery during the exhibition. Contact me via my website, or speak with staff at the gallery.

Caelene D'Arcy (née Glen)