Please join us to celebrate the launch of 'Material Things.'

See  preview of the show here.

Cotton fields

'Cotton fields'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

Fox prints

'The New Coat'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

A fox remembers he was not always materialistic. Stepping back through his material possessions he is curious about the environment from where he came.

'Material Girl'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

In a material world, nature has become decorative. Material Girl is reminded by the bird (her conscience) that she has strayed from home.

'Moonpillow'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

Every night I fall asleep watching the moon through the Red Box trees. They are my blanket.

My house is surrounded by foxes. One night I couldn't sleep and a fox came to my window. he couldn't see me but was 20 centimetres away from my face. His black silhouette is still with me and they appear in these prints. I find the foxes beautiful, but can not make peace with them. They were introduced from Europe in the 1830s to Australia, and their destruction to our ecology has been profound. They are not unlike us humans.

Three new prints

'The Morris Minor beehive'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

'The writer's lament'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

'A bird in the hand'

Silk cut lino print © M. Burton 2012

The chough that changed my mind

'The chough that changed my mind' 

Silk cut lino print © M.Burton

This is what happens to you when you move out of the city and disappear into the Red Box trees.

Material Things: Group printmaking exhibition coming soon

                                                    'One day it might all be gone' 

                                                     Silk cut lino print © M.Burton

This is the start of a new series of prints for a show in October at the Eltham Library with fellow artists Libby Schreiber, Maria Barbaro and Kylie Sirett. The theme for this exhibition is 'material things.'

Sam Wallman: Being born is goin' blind

 

I don't seem to leave the bush much these days, but I was more than eager to break out of the trees for the launch of Sam Wallman's fantastic new comic book 'Being born is goin' blind.' The delivery room was 'Wooly Bully' in North Melbourne, a great little venue that deals in beverages and comic books.

I love Sam's work. Sam can write, draw, tell stories, and make mini visual essays that leave you with a heightened sensibility of all things. ALL things? Holy moley, what does that mean? It means that as I sit here I'm making connections between the rarely considered amoeba, fossilized plant matter and anonymous factory worker that made the plastic keys that are clicking away under my fingers. These thoughts are simultaneously subdividing into continents, religions, political systems, loaves of bread, draining baths, ring tail possums, sex, the tips of tree branches, future meteorological projections and synthetic polyester fabric. Sam joins the dots and after you close his book your mind keeps going.

'Being born is goin' blind' asks some grubby questions, but criticism of humanity comes across as affectionate, detailed, and often very funny. See more of Sam's work and buy his book HERE.