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The Artwork of Jay Carnegie Muir
●FLYING (with feet on the ground)● Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●FLYING (with feet on the ground)●

Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●POETRY (in motion)● updated Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●POETRY (in motion)● updated

Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●IMPROV (with leaf blower)● Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●IMPROV (with leaf blower)●

Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●GALLIPOLI (deconstructing Bunyip Bluegum)● Acrylic painting on canvas, 30x30cm [2012] I once spoke with a man who was an Aussie soldier at Gallipoli in 1915. He was haunted by the experience 70 years later. This is my response to Norman Lindsay’s WW1 propaganda poster ‘The Trumpet Calls’ Bunyip Bluegum is the name of his koala character in the 1918 children’s book ‘The Magic Pudding’.

●GALLIPOLI (deconstructing Bunyip Bluegum)●

Acrylic painting on canvas, 30x30cm [2012]

I once spoke with a man who was an Aussie soldier at Gallipoli in 1915. He was haunted by the experience 70 years later.

This is my response to Norman Lindsay’s WW1 propaganda poster ‘The Trumpet Calls’

Bunyip Bluegum is the name of his koala character in the 1918 children’s book ‘The Magic Pudding’.

The Trumpet CallsThe Magic Pudding

●LOST (in amazement)● Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●LOST (in amazement)●

Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

—Rene Magritte

●REBOUND● Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

●REBOUND●

Ink pen & coloured pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm, [2012]

beagle & ball [1993] oil on canvas an excercise in copying.

beagle & ball [1993]

oil on canvas

an excercise in copying.

EVE (Ghost Gum Girl) 1994 Oil on canvas 71x61cm Started this Melbourne and completed it in Cairns.

EVE (Ghost Gum Girl) 1994

Oil on canvas 71x61cm

Started this Melbourne and completed it in Cairns.

12 Years living on the Sunshine Coast, it was very much a beach & sport culture.  ‘Bods’ art was a reaction to the portrait work; stopped drawing faces and focused on bodies in an ‘ancient-greek urn’ type of way.

12 Years living on the Sunshine Coast, it was very much a beach & sport culture.  ‘Bods’ art was a reaction to the portrait work; stopped drawing faces and focused on bodies in an ‘ancient-greek urn’ type of way.

‘Swaggie’ - I did this in 1985, age 16 (in my second year of art school).  With a .25 rotring technical pen, A3 size cartridge paper (about 30 hours over a week). Completely pointilism.This is photographed from a photocopy.

‘Swaggie’

- I did this in 1985, age 16 (in my second year of art school).  With a .25 rotring technical pen, A3 size cartridge paper (about 30 hours over a week). Completely pointilism.
This is photographed from a photocopy.

‘Untitled’ - Oil paint on canvas 1994

‘Untitled’ -

Oil paint on canvas 1994

pencil sketch 1994. After Hugh Ramsay. NGV had a brilliant retrospective of Hugh Ramsay’s work, that I hold dear. Australia lost Hugh too young at age 29. so instead of having The Ramsay school, Australia was inflicted with the ‘cadaver-like’ portraiture of the Meldrum school.

pencil sketch 1994.

After Hugh Ramsay. NGV had a brilliant retrospective of Hugh Ramsay’s work, that I hold dear. Australia lost Hugh too young at age 29. so instead of having The Ramsay school, Australia was inflicted with the ‘cadaver-like’ portraiture of the Meldrum school.

I’m taking this month off to get over an illness.

I’m adding some old (non-koala) work instead. Maybe Keith Haring is right, it’s not art if it’s sitting in a cupboard, and nobody sees it. You decide.

Jay.

Pencil Sketch - 1994 After Rembrandt? Frans Hal? not sure.   pencil on a4 cartridge paper.Submitted this with other works in my application to teach Drawing to Adults (in Far North Queensland).Went through a phase of wanting to be a professional portrait painter. Tried my hand at portrait drawing at the Kuranda tourist market. But wasn’t for me.

Pencil Sketch - 1994

After Rembrandt? Frans Hal? not sure.   pencil on a4 cartridge paper.

Submitted this with other works in my application to teach Drawing to Adults (in Far North Queensland).

Went through a phase of wanting to be a professional portrait painter. Tried my hand at portrait drawing at the Kuranda tourist market. But wasn’t for me.