Art exhibition : Recent Paintings of Barangaroo by Jane Bennett

From Barangaroo to Double Bay :
Paintings Now on Display at the Frances Keevil Gallery until 8th October 2010

"I saw the number '8' in red... "2010  
oil painting on canvas  51 x 76cm
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"Out of time " oil painting on canvas 31 x 31 cm

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"May Open without warning" 

(Inside the loading dock of the former Cruise ship Terminal at Darling Harbour 8)

2010  oil painting on canvas 51 x 76cm
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Painted from a similar viewpoint as "May close without warning..."

"MAY CLOSE WITHOUT WARNING (Inside the loading dock of the former Cruise ship Terminal at Darling Harbour 8)"
oil painting on canvas 51 x 76cm
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"Night, 'Pacific Jewel'  from the
bridge of the Maersk Gateshead" 2010 

oil painting on canvas 61 x 91 cm

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"The Pacific Jewel arrives for the first time 
at the new temporary facilities at Barangaroo" 2010 
oil painting on canvas 
36 x 46 cm
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"The Pacific Jewel arrives for the first time
at the new temporary facilities at Barangaroo"
Diptych Left hand canvas 2010
oil painting on canvas 25 x 51 cm each
Total image size 25 x 102cm
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"The Pacific Jewel arrives for the first time 
at the new temporary facilities at Barangaroo"

Diptych: 2010 oil on canvas 25 x 51 cm each 
Total image size 25 x 102cm
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"The 'Pacific Jewel ' at the new temporary

cruise ship facility at Darling Harbour"

Diptych- 2010 oil painting on canvas

25 x 51 cm each 

Total image size 25 x 102cm

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See my post :  Barangaroo paintings of 'Pacific Jewel'

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Sydney Harbour Control Tower (The 'Pill')

Painting the Sydney Harbour Control Tower at Barangaroo

Painting the Sydney Harbour Control Tower

at Barangaroo : Art versus life

My canvas is sitting on top of my trolley luggage, which contains my essential equipment.

My paints, my brushes, my palette, my easel, my toilet paper and my lunch. It's a long walk back and the French box easel weighs over 10 kilos with the paint inside. All French box easels have annoying design flaws. With this one the easel legs have an alarming tendency to detach and whack me on the back of shins whenever I least expect it. Shoving it inside the trolley luggage was the best compromise I could come up with.

BAR53 'Barangaroo north -

The Harbour Tower, escarpment and Moore's Wharf'

2010 oil on canvas 61 x 91cm

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Painting the Sydney Harbour Control Tower

at Barangaroo

While I was painting this, the radio station Nova was holding some kind of promotional event, on the knuckle of the northern end of Barangaroo.

It was a bit distracting and I felt a bit nervous leaving all of my things lying around at the mercy of the crowd whenever I had to have a loo break.

But they had set up a pop-up coffee bar in the middle of the wharf, so I'm everlastingly grateful to them as I love my coffee and never usually get a chance to drink any while I'm painting - it tends to go sour in a thermos and milk turns to yoghurt in the sun.

The Sydney Harbour Control Tower will still be used by Sydney Ports Corporation until their room in their spiffy new purple and silver headquarters at Port Botany has been fitted out in April 2011. I don't know whether there will be a role for the Sydney Harbour Control Tower in the new plans for Barangaroo. Hope so. I still have an easel and paint stashed on the amenities floor; I don't want to lose them.

BAR54 'Tower of Power'
2010 oil on canvas 61 x 61cm
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View more of my Barangaroo paintings at my Barangaroo blog 'Painting Barangaroo'

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Paintings of former cruise ship terminal Wharf 8, Barangaroo.

This building was demolished in late August 2010.

It had only been opened in July 1999, for the expected influx of cruise ships for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

This painting shows the entrance to the loading dock, normally off limits to the public.

The door is open to the view north towards the Sydney Harbour Control Tower on the right and the new temporary cruise ship facilities in the marquee to the left.

Poignant reminders of the site's previous function create ironic, even surrealist undertones.

"May open without warning "
2010 oil on canvas 56 x 76cm
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Painted from a similar viewpoint as "May close without warning..."

I changed the title from "Inside the loading dock of the former Cruise ship Terminal at Darling Harbour 8" to the more catchy "May Open without warning".
I had painted the sign on the ground but hadn't really noticed how it made a neat bookend to the other painting until my gallery pointed it out!
Through the doorway is the Sydney Harbour Control Tower and the marquee used for the temporary cruise ship facilities by Sydney Ports Corporation.

"May close without warning "
2010 oil on canvas 56 x 76cm
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The title of this painting could double as my motto!
"May close without warning" says it all.
I never need to make jokes - the truth is quite adequately hilarious.

See my "Hungry Mile" page in this blog

See my "Millers Point" page in this blog

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