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
  Sold
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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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A Tribute to 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' by Alain de Botton

Theory versus Practice
Alain de Botton, I feel as though I have been unknowingly illustrating your fine book all of my working life!
Naturally as a realist plein air painter, the chapter about the realist plein air painter spoke to me most directly. Very few art critics and even fewer philosophers have ever valued the empirical point of view, i.e. the experience of what actually happens as opposed to their pristine theory of what should happen. I could not name a single other living art critic or philosopher who has bothered to observe from close quarters what is actually involved in the creation of a work of art. The labour involved, the struggle with materials and the entire process is always taken for granted or even treated with disdain. The work of art is expected to appear as if by magic on the gallery wall, and increasingly the 'idea' or theory is given the respect formerly due to the artist's skill and the actual 'work' is carried out by nameless assistants.
De Botton is the only writer in recent memory to bother to accompany an artist on the long journey from the idea to the completed canvas on the gallery wall. Some art critics have visited the homes or galleries of wealthy and famous art collectors, but de Botton is certainly the only one to visit the home of an ordinary person who happened to recently purchase a painting to try to understand their motives and observe their interaction with their new purchase. De Botton is also the only writer with the patience to watch an artist at work and the only one to attempt to understand what that work actually involves.This wonderful chapter is full of respect, tenderness and wryly understated humour, and I was deeply moved by it.

See my page on this blog : 'The Hungry Mile ' where I quote from his chapter on cargo ship spotters.

The End of an Era - The "Maersk Gateshead" Arrives

Painting the 'Maersk Gateshead' from the wharf at Barangaroo
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This was the last container ship ever to enter Sydney Harbour. I was permitted to paint it, not only from the wharf, but from the bridge of the ship, courtesy of the Captain, Mark Carter.
 

On my easel is the completed oil painting of the

'Maersk Gateshead' which I sold to the Captain.

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I spent 4 days painting from different vantage points on the ship, knowing that I was witness to the end of an era.

Painting the 'Maersk Gateshead' from the wharf at Barangaroo
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The 'Maersk Gateshead' only made her unplanned visit to Sydney Harbour because her engines became disabled. Rather than return to Port Botany or sail further into Sydney Harbour to dock at Glebe Island, as originally planned, the Captain decided to make use of the recently vacated wharf at Barangaroo
DH255 'Early morning, the Maersk Gateshead at Barangaroo'
2010 oil on canvas 31 x 61cm
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The 'Maersk Gateshead' was not originally intended to enter Sydney Harbour at all. It had been near Botany, when it was discovered that the engines were disabled, and after some discussion, it was decided at first to send it to Glebe Island.

I was painting the ex-Hmas Adelaide and the OES Barge which were both then docked at Glebe.

DH257 'The Maersk Gateshead, preparing to depart Barangaroo'
2010 oil on canvas 40 x 120cm
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On the 7th June the OES Barge was waiting for the weather conditions to permit it to go to Botany, where it was to start the trials for laying cables.

There was quite a big swell at Botany- a wide windy shallow bay at the best of times.

Suddenly the OES people were told to move the barge from Glebe to neighbouring White Bay, to accomodate the disabled ship.

Painting the 'Maersk Gateshead' from the
bridge of the ship at Barangaroo.
An unfinished oil painting of the panorama
from Pyrmont and White Bay to Balmain 25 x 152cm

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But the expected ship did not arrive at Glebe - the captain had decided to instead move his ship, the 'Maersk Gateshead', to the vacant lot at the former DH5.

Painting the 'Maersk Gateshead' from the
bridge of the ship at Barangaroo.
A central view of the prow of the ship
featuring its rows of containers.
The Sydney CBD and the heritage terrace
houses of Miller's Point are in the background.
Oil painting on canvas 38 x 76cm
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DH256 'The 'Pacific Jewel at wharf 7 from
the bridge of the Maersk Gateshead'
2010 oil on canvas 38 x 76cm
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The ship was not unloaded at the wharf, but waited for repairs and finally left at 3pm Monday 14th June. I understood the historical significance and made sure that I took advantage of the situation.
As well as painting from the dockside, after a bit of negotiation I was permitted to paint from the bridge of the ship itself.

"Night, 'Pacific Jewel' from the bridge of the Maersk Gateshead"

2010 oil painting on canvas 61 x 91 cm

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From the bridge of the "Maersk Gateshead"at night. The "Pacific Jewel" Cruise ship is turning in the background, ready to depart Sydney Harbour.

This was a historic moment - the last time that a cruise ship would dock at the old cruise ship terminal at Darling Harbour Wharf 8.

It is highly unlikely that any other container ship will ever be allowed to dock at Barangaroo again.

If the recent article by Paul Keating in the Sydney Morning Herald is any indication, the cruise ships will be evicted to White Bay as soon as possible.

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