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All tidal boundaries actions

     TB 1 mending, unmending

TB 2 shadow tracing

TB 3, 4 ,5, 6 fence rubbing & stamping, driftwood & windwork

TB 7 painting with plants

TB 8 patching & tearing

TB 9 charcoal, wind, fig tree

TB 10 seawater, sand, gold

TB 11 tide line drawings

TB 12 port jackson fig pressing

TB 13 shadow/fence tracery

TB 14 green weaving 

TB 15 graphite, charcoal

shadow, gold 

TB 16 tideline overdrawing

TB 17 charcoal, seawater, scroll

TB 18 collaborative canvas

TB 19 figs & paper

TB 20 pontoon drawing

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tidal boundaries 

action 7: painting with plants


the seventh in a suite of environmentally responsive actions undertaken at Redleaf beach in Sydney's east over the course of a 4 month residency. A garden drawing to be in relationship with the garden drawings of other artists from The Little Umbrella Collective at the 2024 Woollahra residency. 


method/practice/medium: Antique perforated scroll from a player piano, Japanese watercolour pigments, violets from the Blackburn gardens at Redleaf


process/score: Take the shadow drawings on pianola scroll from action 2: shadow tracing. Move the scroll from the beach to the garden and thus respond to not only the beach studio elements but the environment of the Blackburn Gardens. 


Thread the violets into the perforations of the scroll and include them in the gold strokes made onto the paper. Overwork the metallic pastel markings from Work 2, overworking the same scroll. Paint in concert with the wind, holding the brush with the metallic pigment and allowing the paper to blow up towards the brush, such that the wind performs the mark making. 

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