2016 : Environmental awareness drawings
Brunswick Street Gallery: Group Show 2016
See here photography works included in this show.
The environment, our species' place in it and impact on it, has been a concern for me for mostly all my life.
With the professional quality of art materials required by the art industry, I have always allowed this creative pursuit to be one aspect of my life when I made an allowance to environmental concerns. Very happily, I have recently discovered new materials in fine art shops which sympathise with my ethics: 100% recycled cotton rag papers; and have put these to use with passion.
Due to the high turnover of paper used in life drawing I have started, in the last year, working on cardboard boxes from my family home, creating what I call: Cardboard Box Collections.
Key Notes on works:
Butterflies: represent the short life cycle of many products and materials in our everyday lives.
Goddesses: a call for new religious myths and lores to focus on our connection to the earth and its inherent power.
Empathy: human understanding of our demands on the earth and her resources.
Places in Time: how one place can be changed over the course of time and how small our time, as a human race, has been on relation to the Earth's existence.
Please feel free to discuss the works with me. I would be happy to meet you at the gallery during the exhibition. Contact me via my website, or speak with staff at the gallery.
Caelene D'Arcy (née Glen)

Goddess of the Moth (she creates a safe haven)
Ink, pen & watercolour on recycled cardboard box
70 x 195 mm
SOLD

Haven't I given enough? (you are mining too deep)
Ink, pen & watercolour on recycled cardboard box
160 x 195 mm
SOLD

There is still hope
Ink & prismacolour pencil on recycled cardboard box
160 x 195 mm
$65.00 (unframed)
$75.00 (framed)

When they realised water was worth its weight in gold
Ink, pen, prismacolour pencil & watercolour on recycled cardboard box
140 x 220 mm
SOLD

Looking back
Ink & prismacolour pencils on recycled cardboard box
120 x 140 mm
$65.00 (unframed)
$75.00 (framed)

Desires can be simple
Ink & copic markers on 100% recycled cotton paper
210 x 150 mm
$185.00 (unframed)
$195.00 (framed)