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exhibition Helen S. Tiernan - Farming Without Fences

From 14th November to 17th January 2015

29 November 2014 - 17 January 2015 Floor Talk Saturday 29 November 2.30-3.30pm Opening 4-6pm

Helen Tiernan’s new paintings explore the Australian landscape through three elements: traditional Aboriginal, and contemporary land management, and idealized depictions as seen in the colonial home interior. Her major inspiration has been Bill Gammage’s revelatory book, The biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Through subtle controlled burning, working progressively from the edges, Australian Aborigines transformed the forest into grassland. A benign, yet stark equivalent to the torching, clear felling and bulldozers employed today. In these paintings, Tiernan further develops stylistic themes in which baroque forms were woven and embedded with veiled romantic patterns, referencing printed wallpaper, pressed metal ceilings and relief printing (interior design elements familiar to the colonizing power). The gold mark making encased around the edges and sides of her canvases referred to the way in which gilt-edged frames further romantisised the versions of the country in the eyes of those with power and influence, just at the very time their way of life threatened to eclipse that of the original inhabitants. The aesthetic link between these three seemingly disparate ideas is the patterning on both the internal and external environment: forms formerly created through Aboriginal land management, and seen in the traditional Western interior, that now exist only in memory. In works that allude to Australia’s colonial past, Tiernan borrows stylistic elements from George Stubbs, Joseph Lycett, John Glover, Otto Pareroultja and Sydney Long. Her main symbolic elements are fire, kangaroos, grassland, the edges of the forest and the earth mover. The process of fire stick farming created corridors, pathways, and lush grassy fields. The bulldozer’s tracks are scars rent and ripped: all leave readable patterns on the land. Here Tiernan merges the Aboriginal understanding of exterior beauty with the Western ideals of interior beauty. Her paintings are unpopulated by man. Only the imprint left by two quite different cultures can be seen. They are peaceful, yet subtly imbued with the life and signs of the countless past generations that have given us modern Australia. In these new works Helen Tiernan makes a connection that most would not recognize. Traditional land management and romantic depictions of the environment through interior design. Her work is free of judgment. They are a mediation between two parts of herself, and two cultures sharing a country. Both our external and internal environments have undergone creative change. Here, both the home, and its natural environment, are used to reference subliminal beauty- a beauty lost, but not forgotten. Adrian Newstead November 2014

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Blakely Red Gum by Helen S Tiernan
Blakely Red Gum - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

30 x 30 cm
#13530
SOLD

The Surviving Gum by Helen S Tiernan
The Surviving Gum - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

30 x 30 cm
#13531
SOLD

Woodlands by Helen S Tiernan
Woodlands - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

30 x 30 cm
#13532
SOLD

Entangled by Helen S Tiernan
Entangled - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

30 x 30 cm
#13533 LOCATION: Paddington
$475.00

Fire Tracks by Helen S Tiernan
Fire Tracks - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

20 x 61 cm
#13516
SOLD

Mosaic Kangaroo  by Helen S Tiernan
Mosaic Kangaroo - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

59 x 31 cm
#13536
SOLD

Overlaid Arboretum  by Helen S Tiernan
Overlaid Arboretum - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

40 x 30 cm
#13549
SOLD

Where Grass Meets Forest by Helen S Tiernan
Where Grass Meets Forest - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

70 x 40 cm
#13515
SOLD

On the Fringes by Helen S Tiernan
On the Fringes - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

80 x 40 cm
#13541
SOLD

Undergrowth by Helen S Tiernan
Undergrowth - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

90 x 30 cm
#13550 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

Inside Outside by Helen S Tiernan
Inside Outside - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

30 x 105 cm
#13535
$1,300.00

Re-clothed by Helen S Tiernan
Re-clothed - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

102 x 40 cm
#13534
SOLD

Tree Line by Helen S Tiernan
Tree Line - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

50 x 150 cm
#13540
SOLD

Woodlands I by Helen S Tiernan
Woodlands I - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

105 x 88 cm
#13526
SOLD

Woodlands II by Helen S Tiernan
Woodlands II - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

105 x 88 cm
#13528
$N/A

Edges of the Forest, fire line by Helen S Tiernan
Edges of the Forest, fire line - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

150 x 50 cm
#13517
SOLD

Edges of the Forest, cool fire by Helen S Tiernan
Edges of the Forest, cool fire - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

147 x 47 cm
#13519
SOLD

Edges of the Forest, after the burn by Helen S Tiernan
Edges of the Forest, after the burn - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

150 x 50 cm
#13520
SOLD

Edges of the Forest, burning by Helen S Tiernan
Edges of the Forest, burning - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

150 x 50 cm
#13521
SOLD

Edges of the Forest, transformed by Helen S Tiernan
Edges of the Forest, transformed - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

147 x 47 cm
#13518
SOLD

Where Have All the Trees Gone I by Helen S Tiernan
Where Have All the Trees Gone I - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

50 x 150 cm
#13537
$2,200.00

Where Have All the Trees Gone II by Helen S Tiernan
Where Have All the Trees Gone II - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

50 x 150 cm
#13539 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$2,200.00

Arboretum Canberra by Helen S Tiernan
Arboretum Canberra - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

105x85 cm
#13542
$2,400.00

Patterns in the Land  by Helen S Tiernan
Patterns in the Land - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

40 x 158 cm
#13551 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$2,500.00

Placement by Helen S Tiernan
Placement - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

90 x 90 cm
#13525 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$3,200.00

Abundance by Helen S Tiernan
Abundance - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

105 x 90 x 1700 cm
#13529 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$3,200.00

Deco-roo I by Helen S Tiernan
Deco-roo I - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

120 x 70 cm
#13523
SOLD

Deco-roo II by Helen S Tiernan
Deco-roo II - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

90 x 114 cm
#13524
SOLD

Under Construction by Helen S Tiernan
Under Construction - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

100 x 170 cm
#13538
SOLD

Fire Tracks, National Arboretum by Helen S Tiernan
Fire Tracks, National Arboretum - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

110 x 170 cm
#13514
SOLD

Parklands, after Sydney Long & Joseph Lycett by Helen S Tiernan
Parklands, after Sydney Long & Joseph Lycett - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

105 x 85 cm
#13543
SOLD

Tall Timbers by Helen S Tiernan
Tall Timbers - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

158 x 200 cm
#13545
$N/A

Colonial Wallpapers - wealth opportunity abundance by Helen S Tiernan
Colonial Wallpapers - wealth opportunity abundance - 2014
Helen S Tiernan 14

150 x 250 cm
#13522
SOLD


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