JANINE GOOD
2017 Exhibitions
The year started well with an inspiring long weekend in CENTRAL AUSTRALIA mid year included my first attempt at the Archibald Prize and finished with being selected into Hidden Faces, Salon des Refuses!
Most of 2017 was around CHANGING FACE OF CARDINIA PROJECT EVENTS:
Harmony Day Changing Faces Launch March 21
Official Opening Celebration for Changing Faces Project May 2
Solo exhibition Changing Faces, Heritage Hill 15 June -
Changing Faces Exhibition at Warragul Library August 16 -
Changing Faces Exhibition at Doveton Library 23 Nov 2017 -
For details about the Project and Artist Statements go to:
PORTRAITS > CHANGING FACES 2017
Other Exhibitions for 2017 can be viewed here:
HIDDEN FACES -
PAN PACIFIC MELBOURNE August 28 -
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Showcasing the works of multi-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNVaHC1ifkw&feature=youtu.be
Opening night images from Upfront Pictures
http://www.upfrontpictures.com/Events/Events_index.html
NOTE: Despite the success of HIDDEN FACES, I was never happy with the end result of Damien’s World portrait and reworked the portrait on its return to my studio. I know this is looked upon negatively but in the end I had to feel like I’d achieved my aim. In hindsight, it should have been a new canvas.
This version of the portrait I called ‘Conversation with Professor Kingsbury’.
My reasons for reworking were that I didn’t think the original version captured the sitter’s true character. Professor Kingsbury is a great thinker and very articulate talker and I wanted to capture him doing both -
This wasn’t to be the final version however and the final version became ‘A Day in the Life, Professor Damien Kingsbury’, submitted to the Archibald in 2019. Adjusting the background again the aim was to reflect his maverick attitude, his writing and interest in international affairs as well as symbolising his connection with family.
I guess a portrait can’t say everything about a complex personality.
SUMMER SIZZLER EXHIBITION -
2 works: Melancholy Beach 1, Melancholy Beach 2
2017 INSPIRED BY VAN GOGH
In 2017 I visited the Van Gogh exhibition The Seasons at the National Gallery of Victoria and was inspired to use bolder colour and thicker paint application in work that immediately followed. Van Gogh has always been a favourite artist to look at for use of colour, his impulsiveness and vitality. The first work was a painting of some Dahlias given to me by a friend with colour so vibrant I couldn’t resist painting. The second is a first attempt practice work for an intended series based on Central Australia inspired by a visit there in February 2017. The third was a 6oth birthday gift painted for a friend, of him on his beloved motorbike. I include the reworking of Blue Girl to Melancholy Beach 1 because the vibrant thicker application of paint was definitely inspired by Van Gogh. His legacy lives on!
