Prints

Up to date examples of recently editioned work available at galleries representing Belinda's work.

Latest Show - Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. Melbourne Art Fair

2008 solo show at the Melbourne Art Fair for Arthouse Gallery, Sydney. The tenuous notion of balance, the potential for both creation and destruction, hope and despair pervade this latest work. These fluid and delicately crafted images combine a complex array of both printmaking, painting, drawing and sculptural techniques. Images of innocence, children playing and flying kites and lotus flowers, are juxtaposed against disintegrating landscapes and weapons of destruction. Pictorial elements fuse with patternation and texture, foreground and background jostle for prominence. For images of the making of the bronze sculpture go to PROJECTS page.

Backwards-Forwards

In late 2007 Belinda undertook a month long artist in residency at the Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia. The resulting works were exhibited at the Centre in December/January 2008. Backwards-Forwards was an ambitious room installation that reflected on past and present wars, the security and seduction of facade and the yearning for history to stop repeating itself. A combination of printmaking, painting, gold leafing and flocking techniques were used to make the work. To read more about the work go to TEXT page for an insightful interview with curator Jasmin Stephens and Belinda. To see the work in progress go to PROJECTS page.

Camouflage 2007

Loka 2007

Group show with artist Marine Ky at Beaver Galleries in Canberra March 2007. This show also coincides with the National Print Symposium at the NGA.

Singapore Tyler Print Institute - 2006

A very successful residency at the STPI produced a series of nine images. For more details on the residency look in PROJECTS page and you can also go to TEXT page for interview with writer Kate McDonald and Belinda.

Balancing Act - 2006

2006 solo show - exhibition at ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney. Building on the 2005 show 'Shadow of a Doubt' these new large scale drawings and paintings of positive and negative icons dominate the theme of this show and explore the dichotomy of human nature. See the review by Tom Middlemost in TEXT section.

Shadow of a Doubt - 2005

Third solo show - exhibited at ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney. Combining painting and printmaking techniques on paper, this show explored ideas of hope and doubt, reflecting on the current 'war on terror' and the struggle to find something to believe in. The show also featured a number of works from the 'Search-Light' series that have been collected by BHP Billiton, National Gallery of Australia, and the Alfred Hospital collection. Also, a number have been finalists in: the Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania and the grand prize winner of the Silk Cut Award in Melbourne. See catalogue essay by Kate McDonald in TEXT section

USA Sojourn - 2003

In 2002 Belinda attended the annual summer workshop at Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA. The five day workshop allowed her to work with and learn from the country's top printers and resulted in a unique series of etchings that were later exhibited in Australia. A number have been acquired for national collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Charles Sturt University Collection and were short listed for the Swan Hill Print Prize in 2004.

At the Still Point - 2002

Second solo show. Exhibited at ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney. Multi-panelled, multi-media prints that reflected on the use of every day objects and rituals that act as offerings for a better world. See review by Kirsten Rann in TEXT section

Lino 2002-2003

This section features various lino-cut works exhibited in Melbourne and Sydney. This series of work utilised for the first time lino as a medium to create unique images to explore the sacred mountain in Tibet, Mt Kailas as an icon of hope and inspiration.

MetaNarrative - 2000

First solo show. Exhibited at Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne. Following Belinda's first trip overseas to Asia, this series of etchings explored the vulnerability, excitement, awkwardness and unique experiences of traveling as a stranger in a foreign land.

Title: 'Outside-in' 2008. Medium: mixed media on paper. Size: 122x 84.5 cm. Featuring in 'Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt' Melbourne Art Fair for Art House Gallery, Sydney stand F30. Photography: Chris van der Spuy.

Title: Ruse II 2007. Medium: Painting and drawing on paper. 150 x 120 cm. Featured in 'Camouflage' Art House Gallery, Sydney