NEST HEAD IV: Australian Mistletoe – The Giver of Life – Print

A giclee print, also called a fine art print, is the closest duplication of an artwork that is physically possible. also referred to as “archival print” or “museum-grade printing.”

A true giclee print will use pigment-based inks, archival material and a wide format printer that can hold up to 12 colours. Highly certified, premium quality paper, made in France from 100% cotton (5-star rating). The Canson Photographique rag has a beautiful smooth, matte finish perfect for artwork.

Print includes a 50mm border, which is hand embossed with original signature.

Comes with a certificate of Authenticity.

Edition of 75.

 

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Description

The ‘Nest Head’ series celebrates and contemplates the power of women.
The beauty in the power to hold life.

The emotional intelligence and

protective nesting that often comes consequently.

 

A Stitch in Time
The Nature of Nurture
The Flower and the Fruit
Featuring Mistletoe Bird
and Drooping Mistletoe.

The thing about our
Australian Mistletoe is,
they flower and fruit when most
Other stuff doesn’t..

So, they are often are
the only source of tucker
for insects and animals during hard times.
They are a beacon for birds,
Sugar gliders, Koalas,
possums and butterflies.

nest head

Inspired through a fascination with birds and their most beautiful and intricately woven nests, I became intrigued with the process of nesting. I came to see that commonly and especially throughout history, in the home women create the nest. The nest being ‘the comfortable home for sheltering young’. When I observed through my observation of birds’ nests, the work and attendance required, I could not help but find an affiliation between the nesting of the bird and the nesting of the female lady bird. This created my concept of the NEST HEAD series.

NEST HEAD is a collection of paintings that celebrate women in the home sphere, but also asks a question about the current position of women in society. The quest for women to do more, yet somehow, and especially globally, a demeaning dominance often remains. Despite the demands of the workplace, an expectation that women tend in an eternally present nature, to the details and demands of the home sphere. I am not answering questions, I am asking them. I merely want women to question the basic assumptions of how gender dictates their lives.

It is through being an Australian woman, cultivated in the rustic botanic beauty of the bush and now as a nesting mother with a bird’s eye perspective, that I draw on the intellect of the spiritual light – where our only real compass is that of the internal, eternal fire. With your mind in your heart, there is the opportunity to see the world with ‘fresh eyes’.