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Magpie Manor by Billy Nye

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ARTIST NOTES: Two magpies discuss their morning activities at what they believe is their home. In the gorgeous Australian morning light this home, complete with hedge is actually a real house in our area. It’s old time nostalgic suburbia, before the bulldozers come in and modern box apartments move in. The front yard and the backyard will become extinct, along with our dear little koalas. Changes are coming, they are here already and I don’t just mean climate change and our landscapes becoming deserts. I mean, say goodbye to suburbia of the past. I paint what some people would find mundane and old but I see it as documenting history.

DIMENSIONS (Height - 60.00 cm X Width - 80.00 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Acrylic on Canvas
GENRE Streetscape
REGISTERED NRN # 000-2248-0188-01
COPYRIGHT © Billy Nye
PRIZES AND AWARDS No Awards
STATUS
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Artist: Billy Nye


ARTIST BIO

Graduate in Fine Art and Visual Culture, Nye focuses her artwork on the "simplicity of the suburban landscape'. Ordinary landmarks such as; swimming pools, houses, fences, power lines and suburban streets, are scenes of home. Not to mention the amazing Port Phillip Bay and the gateway to the Peninsula "Olivers Hill". 

Painting and Printmaking are her main genres with a particular interest in woodcutting. Nyes work is collected all over the Peninsula and has a reputation for her simplicity of the suburban streetscape and the paradise of domesticity. Seeing the beauty in everyday things and making associations with nostalgia.

Influenced the great Australian artist; Reg Mombassa, Jeffry Smart, Howard Arkley and Brett Whiteley. 

BA in Fiine Art and Visual Culture, Curtin University, Perth
Diploma of Visual Arts Chisholm Frankston

Certificate IV in Work Place Training and Assessment in 2010

Working with Childrens Check qualified.


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