He suffers from insomnia. The night can be monochromatic and lifeless under the street lights or strong moonlight and it steals the daytime character out of the habitations as though all life itself is resting. These pseudo-buildings represent that faceless banality. In the night they are just boxes and the potential of life and activity seem to have left them although we are snuggled up inside watching our televisions, reading books, on our computers and in our beds
All images copyright Stephen Solomons. (C)2005,2006.
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Media Victims
also called the "Clowns"
Acrylic on heavy paper.
Painted in the 1980s this painting reflects the way people in crisis became trapped in a media frenzy when some disaster befell them or they became representative of some social dilemma such as being unemployed.
The media current affairs hacks hunted them down and then used them remorselessly.
The use of clowns is filled with symbolism. In this case the clowns are pinned helplessly to a structure representing the girders that comprise the bones of the city. They are displayed there like bugs in a museum, without regard to their lives, emotions or desires.
The buildings are just mass and light.
It is an awful photograph. The painting is very beautiful and considerably more subtle in its textures than the picture would indicate.
Owned by Brian Peach
I will create an section for older works during the next redesign of the site
Insomnia
Size: 3 of 1.3m x .9m
Three sections. Acrylic mediums on stretched cotton/poly canvas on plantation pine stretchers. Unframed
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Untitled
80 x 50cm Acrylic on heavy canvas
Pink, lavender, gray and blue work on a pink and lavender wall.
This painting was created at the Ourimbah Campus of the University of Newcastle during the Bachelor of Fine Art Degree Course between 1995 and '98.
It was exhibited during a joint exhibition at the Gateway Center in Gosford and purchased by the Gateway Cafe during the exhibition because it matched their decore and the ambience of the cafe