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1. Ocean Beach i
Medium: oil on tin on wood, Size: 80x90cm, Year: 2018
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4. Parrot
Medium: oil on tin on wood, Size: 34x34cm, Year: 2019
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5. Red Rocks
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 32x42cm, Year: 2019
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6. Moonah Trees
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 32x42cm, Year: 2019
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7. Mud Flats
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 32x42cm, Year: 2019
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8. Moonah Trees ii
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 32x42cm, Year: 2019
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9. Mangroves
Medium: oil on board, Size: 55x65cm, Year: 2019
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10. Moohah Trees
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2019
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11. Pyramid Rock
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2019
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12 Berry's Reach
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2019
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13. Rennison Road
Medium: oil on board, Size: 55x65cm, Year: 2019
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14. Bird
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2019
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15. Hooded Plover
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2019
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16. Wattle Bird
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2019
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17. Black Cockatoos
Medium: oil on board, Size: 55x65cm, Year: 2019
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18. Bush Mouse
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2018
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19. Echidna
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2018
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20. Bull Ant
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 37x37cm, Year: 2018
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21. Wattle Bird
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 53x28cm, Year: 2018
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22. Ocean Beach ii
Medium: oil on tin & wood, Size: 80x90cm, Year: 2018
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23. Ocean Beach iii
Medium: oil on tin & wood, Size: 80x90cm, Year: 2018
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24. The Sea
Medium: oil on tin & wood, Size: 80x90cm, Year: 2018
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25. Bull Ant
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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26. Rennison Road
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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27. Mud Flats
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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28. Moonah Trees
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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29. Red Rocks
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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30. Rennison Road ii
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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31. Echidna
Medium: oil on linen, Size: 33x42cm, Year: 2018
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32. Phillip Island Airport
Medium: oil on board, Size: 56x55cm, Year: 2019
Exhibition
Mark Schaller – Current Rips
Exhibition: 28 Feb – 15 March 2019
In many respects they seem several decades out of place. For one thing, Mark Schaller and Mick Turner work en plein air, actually trekking out, lugging their canvases and their paints with them, eschewing the studio and hazarding the wind and the sun and the inevitable sandflies in the process. Then there is the simple fact that they paint – an activity that seems almost quaint in the day and age of photoshop and installation and conceptualism. The late-19th-century Heidelberg School painterswould approve, the postmodernists would not.
There are other ways in which the duo stand out in the crowded art world of today. Neither are known as conformists, either stylistically or academically. Yet both have achieved substantial degrees of fame and success. Schaller was one of the founders, alongside the likes of David Larwill and Karen Hayman, of the renowned and unruly ROAR Galleries and his work resides in many of the major State galleries Australia-wide. Turner is even less conventional. While he has held successful exhibitions of his paintings throughout Australia and abroad, he is largely best known as one of the founders of such bands as the proto-punk Fungus Brains and the dynamic trio The Dirty Three.
Far From the Madding Crowd – Words by – Dr. Ashley Crawford