Janelle Buckley
'Blue Nude'
cyanotype (sun print)
'Drowning in Blue'
colour photo from slide
from Azure
December 2017 - January 2018
'The last Stroke'
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
Four sweltering summers ago,
I sat in the hot little warehouse studio painting this.
Jackson came in and said he could feel a tingling in his arm
- “should I call mother?” ... “I don't know? Perhaps, yes”.
We were to do a collaborative exhibition called “Reflections”.
It was to be Ray Moller, Jackson Gooch and myself.
We had picked the colour scheme tones of blue and ochre.
I lay the last strokes for the day, put away my brush
and thought to myself “I hope Jackson is ok.”
That night Jackson had a stroke.
This was the last time I laid brush on canvas.
This piece is unfinished.
I call it 'The last Stroke'.
- Janelle Buckley, August 2017
Spontaneous opening night jam session: Anthony Smith - percussion,
Rodney Sharpe - clarinet, Jason Aldridge - guitar,
and Janelle's wonderful jazz tones.
art and music from Yang - August/September 2017
Janelle joined with Jason Aldridge, Rodney Sharpe and Anthony Smith
to provide musical entertainment at the opening of Scarlet on the 21st of July 2017.
'Janelle Buckley'
'Gareth L. Deakin'
by Janelle Buckley
from the Northern Rivers Portrait Prize 2013
Salon des Refuses - June 2013
Multi-talented Janelle provided a musical background
for the opening night of Scott Whittingham's solo show
held in November 2012.
Above: Generously donating her time and skills to the Serpentine Community Gallery's
CreativExchange@Lismore Show, held in October 2012, Janelle Buckley and friend Nigel
demonstrated the innovative use of monstereo delicio leaves (Monstera deliciosa),
with other found objects and wire to conjure up a selection of bugs.
Below: Joined by Jess and some eager-to-create showgoers,
they also found the time to shape an extra-large, articulated ladybug
using plastic piping, wire, paper, paste and paint.
'Skin'
Oils
38”x69”
$500
Artist Statement: Influenced by the work of Brett Whiteley,
I was interested in the interplay of texture in juxtaposition to the distortion of the figure.
from Scarlet 2012 - 1st June to 2nd July
'Voyeur'
Charcoal & pastels
38” x 26”
As art reflects upon society
and society reflects upon art.
This piece asks the question,
‘Are you the voyeur in this situation or are you being watched?’
I drew this before I even
knew of my bi-sexuality
and when I looked back
on my early work
it became strikingly obvious
that it was always there.
from Scarlet
June 2011
Mixed media artwork from Scarlet '07 - detail below
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