Sky Water Season
12 Oct 2023 – 5 Nov 2023

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street
Geelong West, VIC 3218

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The Southern Basin Floodplains were awash with water in October 2022.

Sky Water Season was born out of these floods. The primary driver of my work is my experience of living deeply immersed in this ephemeral landscape. We levee banked our home and the home of friends and neighbours as we watched and waited while nature filled our rivers, creeks and lagoons. What then followed was an amazing season of abundance and rebirth for our country. Light shimmered, ancient trees renewed their canopies, birds and frogs chorused and everywhere I looked sky and water merged in a spectacle of abundance and renewal. I celebrated the landscape and painted.    

In his address at the opening of the Paddington Art Prize in 2022, artist Black Douglas spoke about the cycle of the wet being regarded as a matriarchal time. He portrayed this in his powerful 2022 Archibald Prize winning work Moby Dickens. Here in magnificent Barapa Barapa country, water is life and renewal and my paintings continue to be an advocate for acknowledgement of the ecological and cultural importance of our inland wetland systems."

Wendy McDonald Oct 2023

Artworks in Exhibition

Flooded, Thule Lagoon (morning of abundance)
Flooded, Thule Lagoon (morning of abundance)
123cm (W) x 143cm (H)
acrylic on linen
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Renewal, Thule Lagoon
Renewal, Thule Lagoon
90cm (W) x 90cm (H)
acrylic on linen
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Dark & Bright Water, Thule Lagoon
Dark & Bright Water, Thule Lagoon
90cm (W) x 90cm (H)
acrylic on linen
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Grandmother Tree (co-designing place)
Grandmother Tree (co-designing place), Thule Lagoon
80cm (W) x 90cm (H)
acrylic on linen
Wendy McDonald Grandmother Trees (propinquity), Thule Lagoon
Grandmother Trees (Propinquity), Thule Lagoon
80cm (W) x 90cm (H)
acrylic on linen
Wendy McDonald Sky Water Season 1, Thule Lagoon
Sky Water Season 1, Thule Lagoon
44cm (W) x 44cm (H)
acrylic on linen
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Sky Water Season 2, Thule Lagoon
Sky Water Season 2, Thule Lagoon
44cm (W) x 44cm (H)
acrylic on linen
Wendy McDonald Floodmarkers, Thule Lagoon
Floodmarkers, Thule Lagoon
44cm (W) x 44cm (H)
acrylic on linen
Wendy McDonald Shimmer, The Pollack
Shimmer, The Pollack
33.5cm (W) x 33.5cm (H)
acrylic on board
Wendy McDonald Generations, Thule Lagoon
Generations, Thule Lagoon
44cm (W) x 44cm (H)
acrylic on linen
Wendy McDonald Liquid Green, The Pollack
Liquid Green, The Pollack
33.5cm (W) x 33.5cm (H)
acrylic on board
Wendy McDonald Night with Silver Gums
Night with Silver Gums
23.5cm (W) x 23.5cm (H)
acrylic on board
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Night Walk with Green, Thule Lagoon
Night Walk with Green
23.5cm (W) x 23.5cm (H)
acrylic on board
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Flooded with Gold, Thule Lagoon (diptych)
acrylic on board
Wendy McDonald Day of Impossible Green, Thule Lagoon
Day of Impossible Green, Thule Lagoon
80cm (W) x 90cm (H)
acrylic on linen
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Floating Untethered 1, Thule Lagoon
Floating, Untethered 1
73cm (W) x 23cm (H)
acrylic on board
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Floating Untethered 2, Thule Lagoon
Floating Untethered 2, Thule Lagoon
73cm (W) x 23cm (H)
acrylic on board
Wendy McDonald,  Pink Sky Water (thinking of the mounds) Pollack Swamp
Pink Sky Water (thinking of the mounds), Pollack Swamp
145cm (W) x 125cm (H)
acrylic on linen
SOLD
Wendy McDonald Watching Over, Little Forest  2
Watching Over, Little Forest
90cm (W) x 90cm (H)
acrylic on linen

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