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BOUGAINVILLEAS
- 'BARET'S BOSSA - 2019'
An installation
of 60 pastel drawings as part of the " BLOOM " Exhibition
at the West Thebarton Gallery, , Nov.7th - Dec.15th 2019.
A long fascination with Bougainvilleas, particularly their intense,
vibrant & exuberant colours was coupled with the remarkable
story of Jeanne Baret ( or Bare ), who discovered the plant,
became an inspiration for these works. Baret was the assistant
to Philbert Commerson the botanist to admiral and explorer Louis
de Bougainville, who led the first French expedition to circumnavigate
the world (1766 - 1769).As a member of Bougainville's ship's
company on this voyage, Baret, disguised as a man, for half the
journey, became the first recorded women to circumnavigate the
globe. It is a compelling story of survival and determination
on the high seas. She was a gifted herbalist whose quest to catalogue
and study new plants was motivated by an interest in their medicinal
rather than floral properties
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JOHN NEYLON'S
essay titled 'FLOWER POWER'
Adelaide Review,
Dec. 2019.
- - - - "The choice of "Baret's Bossa" as the
title of Goddard's current series of 60 drawings is a nod to
the influence that Bossa Nova music (particularly that of composer
Antonio Carlos Jobim) has had on Goddard's attitude to making
art. He says,"The Bossa Nova rhythms that often filled my
studio as the series developed, are as intrinsic to Rio's Carnival
as the colours of Bougainvilleas." And that's before he
starts talking about his addiction to Hawaiian print shirts.
In rendering his blooms the artist has returned to his roots
as a disciplined draughtsman, underpinning richly-hued passages
of pastel tones with coherent outlines that honour their source.
His adoption
of a square format expresses a long-term interest in Japanese
aesthetic codes which privilege a dynamic based on things exploding
or radiating from the centre. Somewhere in this mix the Hawaiian
shirts are having conversations with kimonos. And if you can
stretch this far, try Goddard's suggestion that in these drawings
Georgia O'Keefe is riffing with Ferdinand Bauer - to a Bossa
Nova back beat of course. Somewhere in the audience is Goddard's
muse in all this, the indefatigable Jeanne Baret, whose sharp
eye, in all likelihood, brought the Bougainvillea to Aldinga
(Moana) - and the world. "
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BARRIE GODDARD
'Barrie Goddard
is one of South Australia's foremost landscape artists. Since
the late 1960's he maintained his studio practice while continuing
to teach at the South Australian School of Art 1963-1996, until
retiring to work as a full time artist'.
John Neylon Introduction to'
The Sea ' exhibition 2009.
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BOUGAINVILLEAS
- 'BARET'S BOSSA - 2019'
Installation shot of
60 pastel drawings - BLOOM
Each drawing is Pastel on Paper 40 x 40
cm
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