ISOLATION
Isolation
We are used to isolation in the Territory, but this is a little different.
Plans for 2020 are distant dreams.
Roads to remote communities are blocked and everything is strange.
Some people are isolated out bush and can’t get to town. Others are stuck in town, dreaming of country and family. Waiting.
These paintings are works done during strange times. I haven’t been able to visit my favourite places and trees. A trip out bush seems like a lifetime ago. These are memories of simpler times.
But we are doing ok! Good things are happening too. Families in remote communities are spending more time together, more time hunting and looking after country. Dialysis on country helps to make this possible. Our nurses are bunkered down out bush, banking their holidays for later. No working from home for us!
Grateful for work, grateful for understanding staff and families. Grateful for the resilience and patience of people from remote communities. Grateful to be living here, the safest place in the country. And grateful for a deadline, an exhibition that takes my brain away from pandemic plans and postponed projects to the rhythm of spinifex, of fleeting clouds and light on ranges.
Social distancing? No problem. I’ve hardly noticed a difference. I’m hardly the life of the party at the best of times. No need to make excuses now.
Paul Johnstone Gallery is proud to present Sarah Browns exhibition: Isolation.
The exhibition runs from 6 - 27 June
Please click here to download e-catalogue
Tree
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 151 x 120 cm / 🔴
The Big One
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 168 x 244 cm / AU$4500
Spinifex and Wildflowers
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 50 x 100 cm / 🔴
Simpsons Gap
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 121 x 102 cm / 🔴
Scrub
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 150 x 102 cm / 🔴
Rain Coming?
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 152 x 121 cm / AU$2200
Pukatja Clouds
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 122x 107 cm / AU$1700
Pukatja
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 140 x 100 cm / 🔴
Poor Thing - Telegraph Station
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 200 x 151 cm / 🔴
Musgrave Ranges
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 140 x 100 cm / 🔴
Men's Mountain
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 121 x 196 cm / 🔴
Kintore Sky
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 35 x 102 cm / 🔴
Kaltukatjara
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 151 x 200cm / 🔴
Glen Helen Spinifex
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 137 x 137 cm / AU$2000
Glen Helen Sky
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 119 x 182 cm / AU$3000
Ghost Gum
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 101 x 136 cm / 🔴
Claypan Water
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 197 x 233 cm / AU$4500
Kintore Spinifex
Sarah Brown
acrylic on linen 120 x 197 cm / 🔴