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Bronwyn Davies


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The body in question1999-2005

This body of ours.something we read each day. We use it to store information; we use it to

express ourselves.

In the search for universal symbols that will convey emotional meaning, the body is something

I turn to time and again.

The gesture, the look, not a portrait, not even a whole, just a glimpse of something that says

much morebodies, we all have them.

Life drawing is to the artist as playing scales is for musicians. It helps to hone the eye and

sharpen ones practice.

Bronwyn Davies has been drawing from life since she was 12 years old. Her work is based on

interpretations of the world as seen through the body. She uses texture and a variety of

traditional and avant- garde materials to create her mixed media drawings. Bronwyn has been

involved with the Tamborine Mountain festival of arts, the Plink- Age Youth Festival, and most

recently was director of the Evolution Festival Mixed Media Experiments with Truth. She is

convenor of world music events at Club Zamia and is currently studying for a grad dip in Arts

Management. She has Exhibited throughout Qld and her work is held in private and corporate

collections throughout Australia. She dreams of drawing every day and running an arts

collective called Hippy Heaven!

Artist statement from 2003


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Cocoon mixed media on paper70X 100 cm SOLD Thigh conte on paper 70 x100cm SOLD Bent mixed media drawing onpaper 27 x 35 cm Framed $150


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Loremipsummagnum

remote mixed media drawingon paper 100 x 70 cm Unframed$150

Torch Mixed media on canvasSOLD

The Seer- mixed media drawingon paper 100 x 70 cm Unframed $150


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Torn between giveand take mixed media drawingon paper 70 x 100 cm Framed $500

Anima conte on canvas SOLD Sketch drawing on paper SOLD


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Speak no evil mixed mediadrawing on muslin and paper 25 x32 cmunframed $75

Thought fox mixed mediadrawing on canvas and paper 25 x32 cm unframed $75

Mood indigo mixed mediadrawing on paper 70 x 100 cmunframed $300


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Twisted mixed media drawingon paper SOLD The Question drawing onpaper 70 x 100 cm unframed $200 Squeeze Mixed media drawingUnframed 28 x 35 cm $75


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Fist mixed media drawing 100 x 70 cm SOLDWritten mixed media drawing on paper 150 x 90 cmSOLD

Crossed mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70 cmUnframed $300

Submission mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70cm unframed $300


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Dreamscape- Mixed media drawing on canvas 150 x100 cm $900

Cool to the touch conte on paper 100x 70 cmFramed $800

Eros- mixed media drawing on paper SOLDThe touch mixed media drawing on canvas 150 x 90cm Framed $1200


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Hiddenmixed media on

drawing board Framed with Glass$900

Promise- mixed media drawing

on canvas and paper 150 x 220 cm$1800

Mapping the greatdivide mixed media, oils andconte on canvas and paper 120 x170 cm $ 1600


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The lovers- Oils on Canvas 100 cm x 150 cm $900

From 1997-2000 I shared a studio with fellow artist Kate French. The

studio was next to an avocado orchard behind a daggy brick box of a

house. It was a dream studio; triple garage size, roller door, plenty of

light, space to stand back from your work.

I lived down the road: a newly single mother with 3 young children. Kate

and her family lived nearby.

In the house at the front lived a writer, an ex policeman, who was writing

biographies of serial murderers on the internet.

It was a bohemian time.

Kate worked on her sculpture and I worked on my paintings and drawings.

I was always broke. People were always dropping in, there was alwayslaughter, singing and music. Kate had just started learning guitar and she

loved it. She bought old guitars, stripped them back and then painted

them.

I wanted to call the space legs off the wall studio. It was such a crazy,

happy space and though we were both poor, we both were very creative at

that time.

I painted the portrait of Kate to try and capture

some of her love of life and music at that time.

In 2000 there was a storm on the mountain

and the painting fell over and got a slight L-

shaped tear that was professionally repaired.


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On a clear day you can fly (above left) acrylic and pastels on paper Sold

The face you cant hold (Below right) conte andcharcoal on paper 150 x 120 cm Framed $1200


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Looking for universal symbols2005-2007

I had never thought of my studies of the body to be overtly sexual, more about an exploration of how the body can convey

certain meanings through the body language and posture. The work using the body was problematic in that different cultures

approached body language with varied understndings.

In my search for more universally understood images to convey meaning I turned to colour. Could colour conjure up in visual

language what I wanted to express?

This too had its problems. New age colour therapy prescribed numerous alternative meanings and attibutes to colour, and my

brush with the Evolution festival and a new partner with a more scientific background saw me looking at colour through the

long lens of evolution and how colours are perceived in nature as indicators of danger or abundance.

I looked to pattern and ritual to understand how various cultures embellish and create patterns that carry with them cultural

information and meaning.

Living on Tamborine Mountain ultimately I drew on the natural world for inspiration.


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Raw (this page tope left) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500

Reflection (this page top right) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500

New (this page bottom left) acrylic on canvas SOLD

Hope (Next page top left) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500

Endless (Next page top right) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500

Glow (Next page bottom left) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500

Fog(Next page bottom right) acrylic on canvas 80 x 90 cm $500


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Lorem ipsumaliquamexercitation elitlaborem magnumexercitation

Wood carving drawing on paper $300 unframed

Patterns: the way we

leave our mark and

the patterns we

make, say a lotabout the culture we

are in and the

people we are.


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Doors oil on canvas 60 x 90cm $400Gatewaymixed media on canvas 100 x 120cm $500


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Detailmixed media drawing on canvas and paper with stitching 120 x 100 cm $2000

12 letters to my God


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Labyrinth Mixed media drawing with stitching on paper and canvas SOLD

From the

exhibition art

of the heroes

journey(a community event reflecting on

Mental health)


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Seed charcoal and conte onpaper $700

Walking with JudithWright (Detail) mixedmedia painting on paper and canvas

Hope mixed media on paperSOLD


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Byron Landscape water colour ink and conte onpaper 100 x 80 cm framed $700

Feather mixed media painting on canvas SOLD

Flame Tree drawing on canvas 3 panels: 3 metres x150 cm metres $2600

Walking with Judith Wright mixed media oncanvas and paper 200 x 120 cm $2200


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Silent Rage mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70 cm unframed $400


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The sentinels mixed media on canvas 124 x 88 cm $2000


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Maps and Traces2009-2010

Maps: a tool for navigation Traces: what is left behind

In 2009 I undertook a Masters in Contemporary Art at the University of Tasmania.

My research thesis : How does the interpretation of Place through the arts contribute to tolerance, social change and

building community.

My visual research : a visual history of the Scenic Rim. Maps and Traces.

Early Life -drawings studies for future work on paper depicting the beginning of life on earth

Crucible - Scenic Rim forged in a Crucible of 2 volcanoes

Myth and Legend- Kurdaitcha shoes found in a local museum

Indentured Labour- Kanaka- the first south Sea Islanders were brought into Townsvale to farm cotton

Explorers -a set of illustrated collectors box

Bilin- King of logan and Pimpama

Diaspora - we are all boat people 40 small canvases

War- Digger memorial


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3.8 billion years of simple cells,.3 billion years of photosynthesis,2 billionyears of complex cells, 1 billion years of multicellular life, 600 million years

of simple animals, 570 years of arthropods, 550 million years of complex

animal, 500 million years offfish and proto-amphibians, 475 years of land

plants, 400 million years of insects and seeds, 300 million years of

reptiles, 200 million years of mammals, 150 million years of birds, 130

million years of flowers, 65 million years since the non-avian dinosaurs

died out, 2.5 million years since the appearance of the genus Homo,200,000 since humans started looking like they do today, 25,000 years

since Neanderthals died out.


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Early life series drawings on paper unframed 35 x 28 cm $100


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2 volcanic eruptions . Mount Warning erupts 23 million years ago. Focal peak shield Mt Barney erupts 20 million years ago

Great southern land has split and Australia separated, drifting northwards, warm, wet, lush rainforest, enormous richness and variety of

plant life. When metamorphic rock weathers they form heavy red to yellow clay soils. Basalt weathers down to neutral and highly fertile

read loamy soils. The big scrub.

Crucible oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm $1800


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Kurdaitcha men magic men Bone pointer

These shoes are made of emu feathers stuck together in a solid mass with human blood and so shaped that there can be no distinguishing toe from heel

and thus the direction of the Kurdaitcha cannot be traced. Before they are attached to the feet the little toe of the left foot must be dislocated and cut. A

small blood-suckinglizard collects this blood which is highly magical and stores it in readiness for the making of other shoes. Well made Kurdaitcha shoes

have an opening on one side to accommodate the disjointed toe. Chanting accompanies this procedure. The shoes are bidden to cling well to the feet of

the Kurdaitcha and to leave no trace behind them.

Elizabeth Durack 1954


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Detail from kurdaitcha


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Kurdaitcha oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm $1800


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Indentured labour

South Sea Islanders

Robert Towns

Henry Ross Lewin

Sandalwood

Cotton

LabourSugar

belonging

Taken

gone

Kanaka mixed media drawing with stitching on canvas and paper 120 x 90 cm NFS


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Explorers Installation mixed media drawings on paper and wood $500 set

Beware

ofopening

a

pandorasbox


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Respected by his people

King of the Logan and Pimpama

Died at Deebing Creek Mission

Bilin Oil and charcoal on canvas36 x 48$1800

detail


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(left - detail) Mixed media drawing on paper from Maps and Traces $200 unframed

DiasporaMigrant #1

Side view


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( left - detail) Mixed media drawing on paper from Maps and Traces $200 unframed

Migrant #2

Front view


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detailDiaspora 40 x 5 inch squarecanvas with songline stitching$1800

Convict

SoldierIrish

German

Chinese

South Sea Islander

Afghan

orphan


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Digger oil and mixed media with stitching on canvas andmaps 36 x 48 inch $1800

detail


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Jack and Judith oil and mixed media with stitching on canvas and maps 36 x 48 inch $1800

Jack Mackinney and JudithWright

The philosopher and the poet


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