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The artist is well known for her paintings of mid-century homes in the Northern Rivers and is always on the lookout for her next subject.<\/p>\n
“My first exhibition was in Mullumbimby, and I just happened to be there on the cusp of things changing,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to capture some of that simplicity, the austerity, the clean lines, and the composition of these old houses.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking for design elements, but the thing with a home is that there are so many stories on so many different levels.<\/p>\n
“There are different ways to look at them, such as philosophical and social ideas, and how things have changed over the years.<\/p>\n
“When I first started doing these paintings, there were McMansions nestled alongside little houses in the cities.<\/p>\n
“I was trying to point out the fact that these houses still existed 50 or 60 years later.”<\/p>\n
The Murwillumbah art community is fortunate to now claim the six-time Wynne Prize finalist as one of its own.<\/p>\n
Sweaney’s capture of a layered local story \u2013 a family home, shuttered and still, awaiting its fate \u2013 will be on exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW until August 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MURWILLUMBAH-based artist Robyn Sweaney’s painting The Red Zone has been named a finalist in this year’s Wynne Prize. The Art Gallery of New South Wales prize is Australia’s oldest for landscape painting and figurative sculpture. The work depicts a house in South Murwillumbah that was cordoned off in the ‘red zone’ as a part of […]<\/p>\n