Roger Callen
Intersections
2-30 May 2019
Roger Callen's exhibition, Intersections (2019) encompasses landscapes and cityscapes but with an interest in spaces reclaimed by nature. Consequently, Roger creates thought-provoking images using watercolour, gouache and at times collaged elements.
- Contemporary Art Awards
Our constructed world-view, the consumer techno-culture in which we live, intersects the given world of a universe that has no cognisance of humankind. Most of these works are about that intersection, the interplay of human effort and nature. On this beautiful and unique planet, Blue Earth, nature once ruled. Now we make and change it in our own image and construct our meanings, forgetting our fragility and debt to nature. In doing so we have jeopardised our own future and have an urgent need to redress it, to celebrate the mystery of being and the rise of form. The works are mostly water-based media landscapes on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane some with incorporated found objects, others with abstract elements.
- Roger Callen
Exhibition
Nowhere to Go
Watercolour on Arches paper
52.5 x 41cm
Before the Fire (Heritage Flour Mill, Albion Station)
Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper
49.5 x 37cm
Mothers Rebuilding
Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper
54 x 50cm
Botanic Bomax
Watercolour, gouache and collage on Arches paper
96 x 72cm
Scene through the Pipe
Watercolour on Arches paper
25 x 39cm
Refracted (through the pipe 1)
Acrylics on green Canson pastel paper
55 x 75cm
Absent Bridge
Watercolour and Gouache on Arches paper
65 x 46cm
Sawdust Chute (Conondale heritage sawmill)
Watercolour, gouache and pen on Arches paper
50 x 22cm