June Tupicoff 2019

June Tupicoff Stradbroke Island 30 April - 19 May 2019 AU S T R A L I A N GA L L E R I E S MELBOURNE

AU S T R A L I A N GA L L E R I E S MELBOURNE

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June Tupicoff Stradbroke Island Tuesday 30 April 2019 6pm to 8pm

35 Derby Street Collingwood VIC 3066 Current until Sunday 19 May 2019 Open 7 days 10am to 6pm

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Cover: Track with boronia (detail) 2019 oil on linen 91 x 151.5 cm Left: Straddie landscape no. 1 2019 pastel on Sennelier card 50 x 65 cm

Wallum Bel Canto 2018 oil on linen 138.5 x 366 cm

Paperbark swamp 2019 oil on linen 77 x 101 cm

Before the fires 2019 oil on linen 137 x 184 cm

Tripod ridge 2019 oil on linen 91 x 151.5 cm

Straddie landscape no. 6 2019 pastel on Sennelier card 50 x 65 cm

Straddie landscape no. 4 2019 pastel on Sennelier card 50 x 65 cm

Straddie landscape no. 5 2019 pastel on Sennelier card 50 x 65 cm

Straddie landscape no. 2 2019 pastel on Sennelier card 50 x 65 cm

Straddie landscape no. 13 2019 pastel on Sennelier card 25 x 32.5 cm

Stradbroke Island June and I have been friends since our first day of primary school in 1955 and we grew up together in Moe, Victoria.

I love these works and have a strong emotional response to them. There is a depth of feeling which shines out for me. I can see June’s fierce determination to conquer a form. I respect her honest and intellectually pure approach to making an image. I have always enjoyed the amount of wrangling involved before a fresh clear work emerges. There is no pandering to fashion or a market, there is simply an intensity, which I find very moving.

Landscapes which give the sense of being unchanged, of connecting us to what is real, can be wonderful to experience and these works represent that for me. June’s work has a tenderness which is immediately appealing and an introspection which has resulted in a lyrical response to a beautiful and uniquely Australian landscape. These works have a sense of stretching back into the past, and express the beauty and fragile nature of the island.

Joy Ellis 2019

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