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Zoe Tweedale THE BIRDS



Zoe Tweedale The Birds

Opening Tuesday 28 July 6-8pm 25 July - 19 August 2015

Robin Gibson Gallery modern + contemporary



Sir Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds - from which this exhibition takes its title - is a film at once absurd and unsettling. It used birds, such familiar yet also oddly alien creatures, to evoke terror so successfully that some people have developed a lifelong fear of birds because if it. In my exhibition The Birds, I have not sought to evoke such outright terror, but instead to examine the intersection between the beautiful and exotic and the uncanny and sinister that I feel birds in some way embody. Sitting, striding, flying, displaying and mating whilst casting haunting shadows on their individual stages, the birds of my paintings range from common and mundane species like Noisy Miner, to the exotic and operatic Frigate Bird and long-dead distant relatives like the dinosaur Deinonychus. Together, they make a diverse flock, a collection of avian beauty, strangeness, ugliness and ferocity. Zoe Tweedale, 2015



The Budgies 180x160cm oil on canvas $3,300



Emu 180x160cm oil on canvas $3,000



Pelican 150x110cm oil on canvas $2,700



Wedge-tailed Eagle 150x110cm oil on canvas $2,700



Crowned Pigeon 120x140cm oil on canvas $2,700



Deinonychus - The Terrible Claw 90x160cm oil on canvas $2,400



Goose 120x100cm oil on canvas $2,000



Tippi Hedren 120x90cm oil on canvas $1,800



Alfred Hitchcock 116x90cm oil on canvas $1,800



Little Penguin 90x70cm oil on canvas $1,100



Kea 90x70cm oil on canvas $1,100



Frigate Bird 64x85cm oil on canvas $950



Cormorant 75x64cm oil on canvas $950



Sage Grouse 64x75cm oil on canvas $950



Tragopan 65x45cm oil on canvas $750



Raven 40x50cm oil on canvas $750



Dodo 49x40cm oil on canvas $750



Curlew 44x34cm oil on canvas $550



Stork 44x35cm oil on canvas $550



Hummingbirds 35x44cm oil on canvas $550



Noisy Miner 30x40cm oil on canvas $400



Vulture 40x30cm oil on canvas $400



Plover 40x30cm oil on canvas $400



Male King Bird of Paradise 40x30cm oil on canvas $400



Female King Bird of Paradise 30x40cm oil on canvas $400



Zoe Tweedale born 1988 Newcastle. Lives & works in Newcastle Education 2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (HONS) National Art School, Sydney 2010 Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Newcastle, NSW 2009 Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts, Newcastle Art School (TAFE) Hunter Institute Newcastle, NSW Solo Exhibitions 2015 The Birds Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2013 Bestiary Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Group Exhibitions 2015 Well Red Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2014 Small Gems Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2014 Face 2 Face Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2013 The Clipboard Show Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2013 Face 2 Face, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2012 The Clipboard Show Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2012 New Talent Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2011 Postgraduate Show Honours graduate exhibition, National Art School Gallery , Sydney 2011 13 Honours painting group exhibition, Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney Awards 2011 Maries Art Award 2011 Robin Gibson New Talent Exhibition 2011 William Fletcher foundation Grant 2010 Hunter TAFE Industry Award (Arts and Media) 2009 Newcastle Emerging Artist Prize overall winner 2009 Ford award in recognition of outstanding aptitude 2008 Carol Duval memorial award for painting Collections Macquarie Group, Sydney numerous private collections in Australia & overseas



Robin Gibson Gallery modern + contemporary

278 Liverpool Street Darlinghurst Sydney NSW 2010 Australia 11-6 Tue-Sat +612 9331 6692

www.robingibson.net


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