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LUCY CULLITON LUCY CULLITON HARTLEY, <strong>NSW</strong> When this photograph was taken, Lucy Culliton lived at home with her parents on their property at Hartley, west of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Her studio, a large prefabricated metal shed, was her own private refuge. Culliton built the studio after winning a painting prize and describes it as more than a place for painting. In her own words, ‘I’ve got my lounge, my kettle, my music. I’ve got my menagerie of animals, I’ve got my garden.’ These things are very much part of Culliton’s daily life and they often become the subjects of her paintings. According to art critic John McDonald ‘she surrounds herself with animate and inanimate things, and then paints their portraits’. Culliton likes to explore how things look en masse and rather than painting a single plant or object, she often crowds her paintings with a single subject to make large, riotous compositions. In Cactus 2004 many different types of cacti fill the painting. Although cacti flower at different times, Culliton has shown them all in flower in this painting. Culliton obsessively paints one subject until she feels that she has exhausted that subject, and then she moves on to something else. Born in 1966, Culliton now lives on a property on the Monaro Plains in southern New South Wales. Her new home includes her cactus garden. See Culliton step out of the studio and into the classroom: www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2705313.htm A menagerie is an old fashioned word for a collection of animals. Name all of the animals you can see in Culliton’s studio. Don’t forget to scan the walls for evidence. Play a game of spot the difference where you compare and contrast Culliton’s painting Cactus 2004 with the painting that is unfinished in her studio. By cluttering as many things as possible into this photograph of Culliton in her studio, photographer Ian Lloyd has used the same ideas of repetition and crowding that Culliton uses in her paintings. What is the overall effect of this technique? Do you have a collection? Is it of animate or inanimate things? Photograph your own collection, or someone’s you know if you don’t have one. Give your series of photographs a title that tells the audience something about the collector. return to Contents NEXT BACK
LUCY CULLITON “I’VE GOT MY LOUNGE, MY KETTLE, MY MUSIC. I’VE GOT MY MENAGERIE OF ANIMALS, I’VE GOT MY Lucy Culliton, Cactus, 2004, oil on canvas, 202 x 103cm GARDEN.” Lucy Culliton 2006 return to Contents NEXT BACK
Page 1 and 2: AUSTRALIAN PAINTERS PHOTOGRAPHED BY
Page 3 and 4: ABOUT THIS RESOURCE This education
Page 5 and 6: CLICK ON THE ARTISTS’ PALETTES TO
Page 7 and 8: IAN LLOYD & JOHN MCDONALD return to
Page 9 and 10: ABOUT THE WRITER John McDonald stud
Page 11 and 12: ANGUS NIVISON ANGUS NIVISON WALCHA,
Page 13 and 14: ANGUS NIVISON Look at the painting
Page 15 and 16: MARION BORGELT MARION BORGELT SYDNE
Page 17 and 18: MARION BORGELT Ian Lloyd took sever
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Page 25 and 26: JULIE DOWLING Julie Dowling, Dispos
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Page 29 and 30: GUO JIAN Look at the exhibited STUD
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Page 33 and 34: JOHN MAWURNDJUL JOHN MAWURNDJUL KUN
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Page 39 and 40: WILLIAM ROBINSON Lie under a tree a
Page 41 and 42: JOHN WOLSELEY JOHN WOLSELEY MELBOUR
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Page 45 and 46: ANNA PLATTEN ANNA PLATTEN ADELAIDE,
Page 47 and 48: ANNA PLATTEN Make a drawing of your
Page 49 and 50: ROSELLA NAMOK ROSELLA NAMOK CAIRNS,
Page 51 and 52: ROSELLA NAMOK Each layer of paint i
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