Andy Pye | Bush Theatre | 26 May - 19 June

ANDY PYE BUSH THEATRE

26 May - 19 June 2022

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COMPILER: James Edwards COLOUR SEPARATIONS: Spitting Image, Sydney Cover Image: Mad gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm

MARTIN BROWNE CONTEMPORARY 15 HAMPDEN STREET PADDINGTON NSW 2021 TEL: 02 9331 7997 FAX: 02 9331 7050 info@martinbrownecontemporary.com www.martinbrownecontemporary.com GALLERY TUESDAY--SATURDAY SUNDAY 10:30AM GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY 10:30AM--6PM 6PM SUNDAY & MONDAY BY APPOINTMENT

LIST OF WORKS

Haze at a falls, 2021, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm Gold in river with fig gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm Cockies with seed pods, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm Windstrip with cockies, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm Riverbank gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 61 x 122 cm Magma with Aggies, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm Incline with trees and river, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm Mad gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm Mag six falls with cockies, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm Lit magma, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm Gamma shower at fig tree entrance to cave 2, 2022, oil on canvas, 88 x 59.5 cm

BUSH THEATRE The mad gamma haze and the crazy days. The minerals, the gold. On the surface, gone; only nano filaments remain - reach out and touch one. It’s gone…disappeared. But up in the caves it’s still all there. These works deal with light, the ‘mad gamma’ rays that wave through our atmosphere creating haze, permeating through trees and refracting on water bodies. They are about the deification of nature really.

It’s the rich mineral evidence at the mouths of caves that originally prompted me to paint them. They impart their precious ecology at their mouths. The boulders will have split over time, and a Kurrajong grows there in the gap sending her tap-root down to the damp bush floor. Wild morels pump up there.

The purity is slashed by screeches of cockies. They steal the furry seeds from jet black and gnarly seed pods. It’s utopia, but also a trap. A windstrip comes through. The white devils blow around. Then a gamma shower lights up the diamonds and gold in the cave; illuminating the neon cleaver tendrils shrouding her entrance.

I warmly thank Martin Browne Contemporary. I would also like to extend heartfelt appreciation to all my supporters over the last twenty years of painting.

Andy Pye May 2022

Haze at a falls, 2021, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm

Gold in river with fig gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm

Cockies with seed pods, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm

Windstrip with cockies, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm

Riverbank gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 61 x 122 cm

Magma with Aggies, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm

Incline with trees and river, 2022, oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm

Mad gamma, 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm

Mag six falls with cockies, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm

Lit magma, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm

Gamma shower at fig tree entrance to cave 2, 2022, oil on canvas, 88 x 59.5 cm

ANDY PYE EDUCATION 2019 Master of Teaching (Secondary literature, Indigenous broad histories and cultures - double major sequences) Charles Sturt University 2009 BA Arts Deakin University (Literature, Politics - double major sequences) 2000 BA Fine Art (Painting) RMIT (discontinued) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Bush Theatre, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2020 Fringe Lyf, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2019 The Great Ocean Road, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2019 North East Tree Scenes, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Vic 2019 Studio Direct, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney 2019 Mad Blossom, Milawa Gallery, Milawa 2018 New Tree Scenes, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2016 Victorian Landscapes, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2003 Trees from a distance, Gertrude St Gallery, Melbourne 2001 Nudes and Vases, RMIT gallery, Melbourne SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Autumn Group Show, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2021 Summer Group Show, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2021 Sydney Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2021 Radiant Dreams, Modern Times, Melbourne 2021 Contemporary Landscape Perspectives, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Vic 2019 Southern Bouy Studios portraiture prize (finalist), Sorrento, Vic 2019 Works in Progress on paper, Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space, Vic 2019 You Yangs, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2017 Terra Firma, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2017 Boom Gallery Annual show, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2017 Summer Projects, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2016 Boom Gallery Annual show, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic 2015 Boom Gallery Annual show, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Vic Andy Pye’s works are held in private and corporate collections in Australia, the USA, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.