Katie Roberts Art | Public figure
Katie Roberts Art
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24.01.2022 This is ‘Land Memory - Abbotsford’ part of the Yarra Series I made in 2006, one of the suite that goes with Land Memory - Melbourne. It is mixed media on canvas, including oil, pastel and pencil. It quotes a poem by Melbourne poet Laurence Collinson who wrote about the city he loved. This piece, like all the others in this series reveals the layered history embedded in the land. #melbournehistory #art #artist #artwork #painting #mixedmedia #mixedmediapainting #poetry #fineart #embeddedhistory #australianartist #artcollector #australianartcollector #katierobertsart #yarraseries
24.01.2022 I am at CERES where I am delighted to be their Artist in Residence this year! While here I will be working on a series of environmental children’s book ideas. As well as some other art too I imagine! I look forward to sharing the journey with you. If you would like to see more please join my mailing list or follow my Katiebell_illustration pages here and on Instagram. You can always join my Patreon too. Thank you for your continued interest in my art. More to come!
23.01.2022 Here is my painting ‘Memory Bridge’ mixed media on canvas 2006. This one is the last from the archive for the moment - as I have finished all my marking. Whoohoo! So back to art making. This painting depicts the mouth of the Yarra River or Burrarung (to use its Woiwurrung name) under Westgate Bridge which was the site of the largest industrial accident in Australian history in 1970, in which 35 people died. Their names are inscribed into the artwork. Across the river you see the old power station and ghostly ships pass by. The river is alive. History is written into the air and landscape in veils of sorrow, scars and echoing beauty you can perceive if you are open to it. Know the history of the place you live on, listen to the land and learn its stories.
18.01.2022 This artwork is one of my favourites but it’s very hard to convey in a photograph. It’s entitled ‘Removed from Nature’ ink, pencil, incisions and gouache on watercolour paper 2016. Made as part of the Darebin Parklands residency it is held in the collection of a dear friend in Sydney. The work depicts the view of the city from the hill at the parklands, with tiny squares cut out of the bushland foreground. This piece reflects our modern disconnection with nature and the way in which we exploit and perceive nature as merely ‘resources’ to build of urban cold concrete habitats. #habitat #art #artist #artwork #australianart #cityscape #landscape #contemporarylandscape #melbourne #melbournelandscape #worksonpaper #fineart #artcollector #melbourneartist
18.01.2022 I made this piece before I even started my resident at Darebin Parklands - it’s called ‘Beneath Darebin’ 2015 and again is ink, pencil on watercolour paper. It’s in the collection of a local who loves the parklands too. It signalled was the start of the Darebin Creek chapter of my Yarra Series. It began my year long artist residency there in the parklands that culminated in the publication of my little Darebin Drawings book. #darebincreek #art #artwork #ink #inkandpencil #drawing #contemporaryart #contemporarydrawing #australianart #australianart #artcollector #melbourneart #katierobertsart #nature #history #australianhistory #alwayswasalwayswillbe
17.01.2022 If you are interested in exploring your own art and would like some guided drawing sessions with me, I have a new offering emerging... email me for more information.
17.01.2022 As you might know I have been working of my children’s book that I started a long time ago. There’s a new speed-painting video of my map-making up on my Patreon. For those that are interested in seeing more and supporting my art, please consider a small subscription. https://www.patreon.com/posts/42582663
17.01.2022 Nineteen years ago tonight we celebrated the opening of Synergy Gallery in the heart of High st Northcote. The gallery I started with these amazing friends and this incredible community. I was just 27. Over the next twelve years an incredible, talented and generous community helped support hundreds of artists we brought over 200 exhibitions and events to the public and saw the rise of many artists that had their start here in this humble jewel of a space, filled with heart. W...e should feel very proud to have been part of it. I would like to honour our long standing president and my greatest mentor and support through this journey. The brilliant Robert Ely who sadly was lost to this world just last Thursday. Thank you Rob for helping bring this dream to fruition. Thanks to everyone who was part of it over the years. #synergygallery #artgallery #artsmelbourne #darebinarts #melbourneartscene #longliveart #artscommunity #ari #australiangallery #arthistory #melbourne @highstnorthcote @darebincouncil #northcote #artsnorthcote @ High Street Northcote See more
13.01.2022 Here’s another artwork from the archives for you. This artwork depicts the Yarra River or Birrarung across from the old paper mills and Chandler Bridge on the other side of Alphington. This basin-like area is filled with billabongs and around here 5000 people would camp and feast on eels over the summer, (as I understand from my research, I must qualify this by saying am not a First Nations person. My research includes Geoff Lacey’s book - Gently Glides the Steam and Gary Pre...sland’s ‘Kulin Nation’) I make this work in acknowledgement of the Wurundjeri people who are the custodians of this land. We who continue colonisation need to learn and understand as much as we can. It’s important. To understand that there are stories, histories, bones of ancestors and animals beneath our feet, in the torn up earth that was bulldozed for freeways. It’s our responsibility to address our ignorance and acknowledge this history. See more
11.01.2022 My Online Art Classes are back via my Patreon page. Please feel free to join in at any tier, you'd be welcome. :) Please feel free to share. https://www.patreon.com/katierobertsart/membership?
08.01.2022 This is ‘Birrarung Dreams’, ink, incisions, graphite and pastel on watercolour paper 2006. It’s the first artwork of the Yarra Series. It depicts the sacred confluence of the Merri Creek and Yarra River/Birrarung, over a map of the Abbotsford carved into the landscape, as it is. A scar upon the land. In the top left a full moon rises over Dight’s Falls.
03.01.2022 It’s been a while since I posted here, although I have been making a lot of art. I have been working, deeply immersed in developing and completing projects such as this slow launching of my illustration work under the name Katiebell. For regular weekly posts on my fine art and more on my art check out my Patreon page here https://www.patreon.com/posts/41330901 or join my mailing list.
01.01.2022 Its nearly solstice and I have nearly finished marking all my students portfolios for the semester. The sun comes in low and golden on these winter afternoons. I feel my home blessed by light and love. The last few months have been some of the hardest of my life, I can almost not speak of it... the departing from these physical realm of my beautiful mum. I never believed it could really happen, it still feels like a dream. In fact I dream often that she is here and I can just... ring her or visit, I did last night. I don’t quite know what I am going to do when I have finished working with my beloved students, I think I am lingering, holding on. I don’t want the dream to end, the reality without my mum to come crashing in. But I have decided I am going to pick up some of my long awaited projects and keep going - I have art to make! I have my own light to shine. Many blessings to you all on this solstice, my dear dear friends who have got me through and my young, hopeful students who shine their light in particular. See more
