2018 CAP Catalogue-v7

Benjamin Mitchell
A Girl Reading
Medium: Oil on plywood
Size: 120 x 80 cm
Price: $2,549
My pictures are explorations of my immediate surroundings
particularly the scenes where my subjects are absorbed in
their own world or unaware they are being drawn, riding the
train, using their phone or at the beach sunbathing etc.
How people behave at social gatherings or alone in public
speaks to the theme of Identity.
Wanda Comrie
Collective
Propagation
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 91.5 x 152 cm
Price: $4,950
A dear female artist friend passed these
cuttings onto me. They’re now growing
roots, soon to flourish and eventually
become strong enough to survive on their
own.
Such is our friendship - women supporting
women, sharing plant cuttings, wisdom and
stories of life with humility and conviviality.
These succulents symbolise the growth in
female solidarity and alliance, which fuels,
facilitates and enriches my sense of self, and
in turn informs a large part of my identity.
Knowing there is a strong network of
support at my back gives me the guts to
know myself in all facets of my life and to
be truly authentic when making art.
I have been using torn and pulped train tickets to draw onto
and explore the material qualities of the paper which I make
from scratch.
After exhibiting these drawings in 2015 I decided to change
the scale and materials and work on plywood with oil paint
and enamel.
James Tinsley
Paradise Lost
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 85 x 85 cm
Price: $2,700
This is part of a body of work that explores the
ideas of identity and place and the anxieties
created for both the outsider and the citizen.
The image places refugee camp in a forest
which performs the role of sheltering the
camp but it also acts as boundary between the
citizens and the refugees.
Within the camp a lone figure in a HAZMAT
suit explores the camp. The HAZMAT suit figure
is meant to symbolise how society guards and
protects itself from foreigners.
The suited figure also aims to show to the
audience how an outsider (refugee) would
find the country and its society that they are
going to - as being unfamiliar, foreign and
threatening at first.
Anne McCaughey
Battling On
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 100 x 150 cm
Price: $7,500
I have fused my subject, Lesley Reece,
with the collaged background of a 1961
copy of ‘The last Battle’ by C.S. Lewis
to reinforce the idea that her identity
has been forged closely with what she
passionately cares about.
Lesley has been recognised as a
Member of the Order of Australia
for her significant service to children
through improving literacy skills and
promoting Australia’s authors and
illustrators. This cause identifies her life.
Through layering of mark over mark,
accretion and striation and scoring of
surface, I wanted the physicality of the
artwork to emphasise the exigencies of
dedication.
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