Gorge Country, 2019
oil on ply, egg emulsion
600 x 800mm
$1600.00 inc framing
Gallery 139 presents
Those Hills: The Pilbara
Michelle Teear
solo online exhibition
This will be Michelle’s second solo exhibition presented by Gallery 139, developed from her travels during 2019 in Australia with her young family over 3 months. This body of work is based on the last part of the journey in the Pilbara area of Western Australia. Teear talks about how this particular landscape, the arid landscape struck something inside her, something she is still trying to understand. These paintings are the result of this amazing experience.
Dales Hills Afternoon Sketch, 2019
gouache on cotton rag paper
297 x 210mm
$220.00 unframed
“On my first visit to the Pilbara in 2019 I saw those hills for the second time. Under a carpet pierced with light, we dreamt of another time. Here in this place by Dales gorge I saw what Fred (Williams) saw, these ancient rocks, the bones of our country, of an age we cannot fathom, here to see, here to rest by, here to wake to. Williams painted these hills, this landscape, and so to me it is familiar. It is in these rocks that I find a slow pace that I can depend on, that is unmoving in our eyes. I can look there and it is the same. To this land I am nothing, to me it is everything.
Dales Hills Dusk Sketch, 2019
gouache on cotton rag paper
297 x 210mm
$220.00 unframed
I lived in the landscape as I explored it’s crevices, its mounds and felt the earth shake beneath my feet. I need to know it, to be there, to find familiarity, I am no longer a foreigner in my own country. Time in the landscape is about absorbing a place, a mood, a weather. Sketches in gouache, and en plein air oils grasp at the immediacy of experience. These become the foundation of my studio practice.
My work comes from the land. Paints are made by hand in my studio. Oils made with ochre and iron oxides, egg tempera from freshly laid eggs from the chicken house next to my studio. The process of making my own paints and mediums offer another connection to the earth, earth pigments to paint the land. The process of living in the land and making work of and with it are cyclical like the rhythms of nature. “
~ Michelle Teear
September 2020
Michelle Teear Joffre Falls Sketch, 2019 gouache on cotton rag paper 210 x 291mm $220.00 unframed
Gorge Pool, 2019
tempera, oil on ply, egg emulsion
800 x 1200mm
$2500.00 inc framing
Dales Hills, 2019
oil and tempura, egg emulsion
1220 x 1600mm
$4500.00 inc framing
Iron Country, 2019
oil on ply, egg emulsion
800 x 1200mm
$2500.00 inc framing
Pilbara Hill, 2019
gouache and pastel on ply
600 x 800mm
$1600.00 inc framing SOLD
Desert Rain 1 , 2020
tempera on ply
600 x 800mm
$1600.00 inc framing
Desert Rain 2, 2020
tempera on ply
600 x 800mm
$1600.00 inc framing
Red Spinifex Ridge, 2019
oil on ply, egg emulsion
600 x 800mm
$1600.00
Within The Walls, 2019
tempera, oil on ply, egg emulsion
600 x 400mm
$1000.00
Iron Pipeline, 2020
tempera on ply
600 x 800mm
$1600.00 inc framing
Spinefex Plain, 2020
oil on ply, egg emulsion
1200 x 1600mm
$4500.00 inc framing
Milstream Hill , 2019
oil on ply, egg emulsion
300 x 400mm
$600.00 inc framing
Milstream Tree, 2020
oil on ply, egg emulsion
1200 x 1200mm
$3600.00
Starry Hill, 2020
tempera on ply
600 x 800mm (combined)
$3000.00 inc framing
Those Hills, 2020
tempera on ply
2720 x 640mm
$ 4,000.00 inc framing
(Triptych of the Kajini hills, at night under a starry sky)