Figure in the urban landscape, solo show at Robin Gibson Gallery 2008
These etchings and paintings were created between 2007 and 2008. The work explores the figure in the urban landscape depicting vernacular scenes from my everyday life. The characters perform mundane rituals of urban life, in transit, having lunch or simply waiting. Not only does the landscape define us, we also play and important role in defining the landscape that we inhabit.
Tina Barahanos
Etched in Memory, solo show at Robin Gibson Gallery
Etched in Memory (2009–2010) developed from stories my mother told me about her childhood in Greece. Her recollections moved between the everyday and the unsettling — ghosts walking the staircase at night, running from a bomb shelter to rescue a pet pig, walking with her mother through poppy fields, and the flowers she remembered most vividly from home.
As dementia began to affect her memory, there was an urgency to hold onto these stories before they became less accessible. The works do not attempt to reconstruct them literally, but consider how memory is received, interpreted and transformed through another person’s imagination.
Multiple-plate colour etching: hardground, softground and aquatint.
Etched in Memory, solo exhibition, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 2010.
Multiple plate colour etching/softground 2010 50 x 65cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint/softground 2010 50 x 65cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint/softground 2010 35 x 50cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 50 x 65cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint/softground 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/softground 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/softground 2010 11.5 x 10cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 20 x 25cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 20 x 25cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 20 x 25cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 20 x 25cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 20 x 25cm
Multiple plate colour etching/aquatint 2010 20 x 25cm
Etching/softground 2010 20 x 25cm
Etching/softground 2010 20 x 25cm
Etching/softground 2010 20 x 25cm
Etching/softground 2010 20 x 25cm
Etching/softground 2010 20 x 25cm
Etching/softground 2010 20 x 25cm
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