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Angela Malone Winter Paintings
Winter Paintings
Angela Malone
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
5 June - 25 July 2021
COVER: Frosty Morning, Summer Hill Creek 2021, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist
CONTENTS
Introduction 7
Emma Collerton, Curator
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Fox 9
The Haybale 10
Night Cinders 13
Winter Fires 14
Frosty Morning, Summer Hill Creek 2021, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist
4 5
INTRODUCTION
Over the last ten years, Orange- of water and light became both a Winter Paintings is accompanied
based artist and poet Angela reflection of her sense of loss and by a selection of poems written
Malone has been drawn to a the restorative strength of the by Malone in 2020.
friend’s orchard to paint. Her natural world.
Special thanks to Angela for her
recent Winter paintings, all At an early age, Malone studied sharing her work with audiences
completed in the year following painting and drawing under in the Central West; to Jo Dicksen
her father’s death, are an attempt the late David Brian Wilson, of for catalogue design and to Joel
to coalesce the landscape’s Rockley. In 2001, she was the Tonks for artwork photography.
fleeting external reality with Australia Council’s writer-in-
her own emotional world by resident at the Nancy Keesing Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s
working vigorously and quickly, Studio in Paris. Malone was program of exhibitions would not
often abstracting elements awarded the Gwen Harwood be possible without the ongoing
of the landscape through the Poetry Prize in 2008 and financial support provided by
process of reduction. Malone was shortlisted for the Peter Porter Bathurst Regional Council, Create
drawn to the Winter landscapes Poetry Prize in 2009. Her debut NSW and the Bathurst Regional
of dawn and nightfall to paint, novel, Lucia’s Measure, published Art Gallery Society Inc (BRAGS).
often following the creeks where by Random House in 2001 and
Emma Collerton
her father used to walk each shortlisted for the Christina Stead
Curator, BRAG
morning before the family had Fiction Prize, was written at
wakened. The transitory bodies Haefligers Cottage in Hill End.
6 7FOX
I found the fox
in a boxed grave of field-
a bale of dandelions, wheatgrass,
wild poppy and thistle.
If it were possible for the sky
to be scythed and squared
into a cut of night
the way a field could be baled,
I’d be buried this way
in a grave of stars.
Blue Morning, Summer Hill Creek 2021, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist
8 9THE HAYBALE
Watch the wind split apart a hay bale
like the frayed end
of a whip, a wick, the tail of a horse.
Let it pull me that way into a gust of straw
or shake me like the head of a thistle-
divided and fractioned into a thousand parts
thorn and seed, memory and breathe,
the scorched threads of nerves,
blasting out from their black centre,
a mouth spitting chaff and husks
into the wide, crackling air.
Morning Snow, Flyer’s Creek 2021, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist
10 11NIGHT CINDERS
Hide with me
in this thicket of plums
when the night has grown dark.
We’ll lie on our backs
trailing stars on our tongues
towards mouthfuls of fire,
torching light
through the trees
when we sing.
Orchard after the Rain, Borenore 2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist
12 13WINTER FIRES
Over the hillside, the smoke from two chimneys
plumes into the slate night, netting stars
as it drifts away through the tall black pines.
Maybe someone stands at a window like me,
watching the branches of fruit trees sway in the wind,
the smoke from other people’s fires,
waiting for the widening glow of a car light
on the rim of a hill; the last red ember
paling to grey in the morning’s sifted ash.
Night, Summer Hill Creek 2021, oil on Belgian linen, 90 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist
14 15Nightfall 1, Summer Hill Creek 2021 oil on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist Dusk 2, Summer Hill Creek 2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist 16 17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Angela would like to acknowledge the Wiradjuri people and celebrate their enduring connections to
Country, knowledge and stories.
She would like to thank Sarah Gurich , Emma Collerton, Jo Dicksen, Joel Tonks, Julian Woods and all
at Bathurst Art Gallery for the opportunity to show these works. A huge thank you is extended to her
family; Kay Malone, Brad Hammond, Louisa Hammond and Bede Hammond who have given her the time
to enable these paintings to happen and have deepened her work through their many lively conversations
about the process of making pictures.
This catalogue is copyright. Apart Catalogue contributor:
from fair dealing for the purposes Angela Malone
of private study, research,
criticism or review as permitted Catalogue Design: Jo Dicksen
under the Copyright Act 1968, no Bathurst Regional Art Gallery is
Artwork photography: Joel
part may be reproduced without supported by
Tonks, unless stated otherwise
permission of the publisher.
All artworks © the artist
Published in association with the
exhibition Copyright Agency, 2020
Angela Malone: Winter Paintings
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
5 June – 25 July 2021
ISBN 978-1-925008-45-6
Published by Bathurst Regional
Art Gallery 2021
© Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
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Bathurst NSW 2795
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