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Maria’s Garden, From the Back

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Winner People’s Choice Award

JADA ( Jacaranda  Acquisitive Drawing Award)

Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

“Maria’s Garden, From The Back” recently won the Art Spectrum People’s  Choice Award and was acquired by the Grafton Regional Gallery. “This detailed drawing won the popularity stakes hands down. Any time you were in the gallery when the 2016 JADA was on display there are visitors standing in front of this drawing of the artist’s neighbour’s garden” Jude McBean, Grafton Regional Gallery Director.

2_j_grealy_marias-garden-from-the-backThe fourth in this series, “Maria’s Garden, From the Back” is of my neighbour’s garden, with its history of Maria’s long marriage, her love of gardening and Italian post war migration in our inner city suburb of New Farm in Brisbane.

The 2016 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award has gone to Caboolture Regional Gallery for the first of its eight venue tour. The winner and four acquisitions along with the 41 finalists are set to tour until August 2018. After Caboolture Regional Art Gallery the 2016 JADA goes to University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery followed by Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Gympie Regional Gallery, Redland Art Gallery, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Warwick Art Gallery and the New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale.

James St

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“James St”

Acrylic on board, 80 x 40cm

After spending most of my professional life painting unbuilt buildings and using every trick in the book to make them say “look at me”, it is exciting to paint a subject that is existing and more modest in its presentation. Walking home from school as a kid, I would look at each house, trying decide which one I liked the best and would like to live in, curious about what they were like inside. Who lives in these two houses and what are their lives like?

This painting recently won the Thomas Payne Juror Observational Award awarded by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. The award was one of the top eleven awards chosen from a field of over three hundred and eighty entries from around the world. The painting will be displayed in Architecture in Perspective 30 Exhibition opening in Toronto later this year and will feature in the catalogue and on the ASAI website.