133 B Deagon Street Sandgate Brisbane 4017
Independent Art Gallery
Catherine Reason Macauley
Ceramic Sculpture, Painting & Illustration
Catherine was born in Bundaberg and grew up living at Wartburg {Baffle Creek}, Mt Sylvia and Peachester until the family moved back to the family home in Brisbane. Now home is at Deagon on the Brisbane Northside
Gallery Hours
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Or
By Appointment
0401 332 549
Sculpture, Painting & Illustration
2024
October
Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th
Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th
Artist Talk
Friday 25th
10.30am - 11am
April
March
February
​2020
Gallery Update
With a New Look to the Gallery. New Hours. A team of Creatives helping to develop the Gallery. T'is an exciting start to the New Year
I have Hannah of @hannahcatherineart introducing workshops 7 Ruby Curating the Gallery.
Alice in Isolation
A Portrait of Pink
Alice & Dodo
Alice Chess Set
Alice Exhibition 2020 Gatakers Artspace and Under the Greenwood Tree Mt Tamborine
My Exploration into “Alice” emerged perhaps by Fortuous Concourse or so I believed. In fact it was a dear friend of mine, who would most often say to me when looking at my body of work , “Oh. it’s Alice” !! or, “Your girls so remind me of “Alice”” !! …. And I’m like, “Oh I wasn’t doing Alice” !! or, “but she isn’t Alice” !! or, “I wasn’t meaning for her to be “Alice”” !!!! …. And yet it had been said by others ?? It was two years ago I had one solo sculpture at an Exhibition that I titled, “The Importance of Eating Your Carrots”. She wore a large Crinoline skirt covered in carrots. A woman and her elderly mum came running up to me excitedly declaring. “Your sculpture, she is so, so Alice !!!!! And I’m like “Oh, but she just isn’t Alice” !!!!!!!! Confused I still could not, did not, embrace the notion.
My next series of Girls I made, I sat and looked, and looked. And all by my little self, I had that moment of recognition, finally …. I had the Red Queen, I had Alice with a bit of a harlequin skirt, I had a set 3 “Alice” girls, and more …. The two piece Kings and Queens I had made years ago came to mind. And no, I still had not done a Rabbit, nor a Mad Hatter, nor a Dodo Bird. So out came the Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and the Dodo Bird and a Smiling Cat !!!!
So as I pondered on my dear friend who much lamented “Alice” and figuring childhood imaginings then emerged a series of Sculptures “Alice Grows Up”. And then emerged a series of Paintings that “A Portrait of Alice”
Poetry
The Contessa of Cabbage Tree Creek
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So first she did float down the passage of Ningi, in her inflatable Aldi dingi
Singing bits of downloaded songs, in long cotton shirt and rubber thongs
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Having iphone plugged in her studded ears, she lay down to drift and shatter her fears
So loud were all the ramped up phonics, and hence ignoring Natures Sonics
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And thinking then of her next drift, she GPS'd for her next lift
As such she thought of the Cabbage Tree Creek, there she would launch the
very next week
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So for this venture she did debit a tinny, and there adorned in bikini and mini
Letting down her sun bleached hair, the sight of chem trails filled the air
Through mystical mangroves that managed to last, and rubbish thrown from the not distant past
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Down and down she did float, no longer attached to the tv remote
But as her thoughts did pass the day, a speed boat managed to come her way
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The collision was, I'm told a blur, and who should know what did occur??
and told her life was rather sweet, from a single verse they tweet
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T'is "The Contessa of Cabbage Tree Creek"
Catherine
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REASON Gallery Opened October 2020
Catherine Reason Macauley
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