Andrew – keep infecting! Christian Capurro 13 May 2025
gazing stone
Gongshi belongs to the Chinese tradition of gazing rocks, dating from the Neolithic era; Suiseki is the Japanese manifestation from fourteenth-century. While the artist has been drawing rocks for a while, he only discovered there was such a thing as gazing rocks in 2025.
gazing stone study 1 rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 17072025
gazing stone study 2 rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 17072025
gazing stone study 3 rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 17072025
alcove
Located 34.8320°N 67.8267°E, the two Buddhas of Bamiyan were c.570 CE and c.618 CE statues in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan – the time when the Hephthalites ruled the region. On 2 March 2001, the Taliban began destruction of the statues that lasted several weeks. The alcove remains.
Located 22.6175°S 117.1577°E the 46,000+ year old Juukan Gorge rock shelters were permanently destroyed on 24 May 2020 as part of mine expansion of Brockman 4. In 2014, the site was classified as ‘cleared’ for mining and removed from relevant risk registers, with ministerial consent under Western Australian legislation. Prior to its destruction, the site had been excavated in 2014 with the remains/artefacts stored at Rio Tinto Dampier office, in north-west Western Australia. The value of iron ore accessed from the area following the blast was AUD $135 million [2021].
The notion of alcove, recess, staging and protection [harbour] is pondered where the overarching [philosophical] structure becomes the fount of a work. A work does not go in, it comes out of that structure.
Bamiyan Valley alcove ink drawing on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 18082022
alcove sculpture study rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. Series: 16062025
alcove sculpture study rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 20062025
rock study rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 18062025
rock study rotring ink, carbon and ash on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 082025
rock study series view
alcove sculpture study rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. Series: 17062025
alcove sculpture study rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. Series of five. 01-05042025.
alcove sculpture study rotring ink on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. Composite view of four pieces in the series. 01-05042025.
alcove [four] series late 042025 sculpture and materials study. Encaustic painting on ply. Western Australian ore, pigment, calcium carbonate and glass ground in wax. 638mm x 405mm x 16mm [d]
alcove [three] series late 042025 sculpture and materials study. Encaustic painting on ply. Western Australian ore, pigment, calcium carbonate, glass ground and kaolin in wax. 635mm x 403mm x 16mm [d]
alcove [one] series early 032025 sculpture and materials study. Encaustic painting on ply. Western Australian ore, pigment, calcium carbonate and kaolin in wax. 510mm x 334mm x 15mm [d]
alcove [two] series late 042025 sculpture and materials study. Encaustic painting on ply. Western Australian ore, pigment, calcium carbonate, glass ground and kaolin in wax. 573mm x 375mm x 16mm [d]
tool
tool series is a study of inherited tools for twenty second century application and use. These unknown tools have evidence of handling that indicates their use and/or uses. Some thoughts and characteristics around these objects are noted: a. the tools have future use. b. they are practical and nearly always have poly use. c. they are at human scale. d. they are powered exclusively by adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – from intent onwards. e. these may involve themselves as tools to make tools. f. Some say, that these tool/appliance are for doing work; that may or may not address efficiency beyond what is needed by the human condition [scale].
tool study rotring ink, carbon and ash on paper [collage] Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 082025
tool study series view 082025
airmaker
airmaker series 122024 [study of something valuable] encaustic painting on ply. jarrah charcoal, pigment. calcium carbonate and synthetic gold foil in wax. 350mm x 265mm w
signal 122024 encaustic painting on ply. jarrah charcoal, pigment and synthetic gold foil in wax. 392mm x 265mm w
signal series 122024 encaustic painting on ply. jarrah charcoal, pigment and synthetic gold foil in wax. 350mm x 265mm w 122024
airmaker series 03092024 [stromatolite] plaster, ores, jarrah charcoal, glass and pigment in wax 708mm h x 455mm w
airmaker 03092024 [stromatolite] plaster, ore, jarrah charcoal, glass and metal flake in wax 916mm h x 606mm w
airmaker 06082024 encaustic painting. pigment, jarrah charcoal, glass ground in wax on ply 767mm h x 528mm w
cell study
scutoid 27072024 epithelial cell. ore, eggshell, jarrah charcoal and pigment in wax 900mm x 600mm
cell shape study 082024 encaustic painting 900mm h 600mm w ore, pigment, eggshell and jarrah charcoal in wax
alice cummins and the precursor exhibition in 2024
encaustic on canvas: reflection upon the first forms of cellular life that required self-assembled membranes – prior to LUCA
cell membrane study 082024 encaustic painting 900mm h 600mm w ore, glass, jarrah charcoal and pigment in wax
cell wall study encaustic on volatile canvas [many iterations 1990-2023] 655mm x 365mm
LUCA 2024 – 032025 study encaustic painting 767mm h x 512mm w x 38mm d Western Australian ore, glass grounds, jarrah charcoal and pigment in wax
dog [otto] drinking stars
dog [otto] drinking stars 012025. Encaustic on ply. Pigment, ore, glass and jarrah charcoal in wax. 1220mm h x 1755mm w x 12mm d
gestalt series, indigo dye on paper
gestalt series. Indigo dye on paper, 022024. 405mm h 335mm w.
gestalt series. Indigo dye on paper, 022024. 475mm h 285mm w.
LUCA series, indigo dye on paper
LUCA series painting. indigo dye and suspension ink on paper. 122023
LUCA series section. Indigo on paper, early 122023. Nominal 200mm width
encaustic
pigment and wax
encaustic materials study 2023. 210mm [h] x 297mm [w]
desire lines series 2022. Encaustic on ply with pigments: glass ground from cleaver street, western australia and lamp black. 332mm [h] 233mm [w]
fire study encaustic 2023. Jarrah charcoal and ash, glass grounds and pigments on ply. 712mm h x 582mm w
masked figure encaustic, 2023. Jarrah charcoal, glass grounds, egg shell and pigments on ply. 370mm h x 250mm w
masked figure encaustic, 112023. Jarrah charcoal, glass grounds, egg shell, metal flake and pigments on ply. 402mm h x 288mm w
bad imaging
bad imaging series number 9 348mm h x 225mm w 112023
acrylic, gesso, pigment and oil on glass
artwork area 920mm h 608mm w gallery frame black 1140mm h 820mm w
1990 – work in progress series of 12 heads, 5 complete, 1 destroyed in flooding event and 1 in forklift mishap.
oil and acrylic/gesso on glass [head 6 contains salt] artwork area 920mm h 608mm w gallery frame 1140mm h 820mm w
head [6 of 12]
head [1 of 12]
head [3 of 12]
head [2 of 12]
ephemera halo drawings at 39 studio. Foamed concrete dust, broom/brush, rake and vacuum
halo drawing 6/20 2010
halo drawing 9/20 2010
halo drawing 12/20 2010
halo drawing 19/20 2010
halo drawing 8/20 2010
halo drawings assist: thomas dexter shaw
c 1990 chalk, blackboard paint [talc, acrylic, titanium dioxide] and cement on canvas 380mm w x 550mm h
streetscape kensington [the universe I am under] western australia 2012kensington story group banksia street cafe from a herbarium of kensington gardens 2007
xanthorrhoea australis flower 2006
heist paintings encaustic 1/3 2018 [the best paintings that ever were]
heist paintings oil 2/3 2018
heist paintings encaustic 3/3 2018
squid ink, esperance jetty 2000
nest series mono print with tom vanderveen permaset onto paper 2012
kurt weill drawing gouache on paper 440mm x 290mm 1986
boobook drawing rotring and carbon on paper Sheet size 568mm h x 443 w. 01082025
sky peaceful bay perforation + rotring isograph [shellac and soot ink] onto Fabriano Artistico 2003
“…see the Southern Cross? It is not flat, like on the flag. See the brightest star – at the foot of the cross? and then the two less bright – the top and left stars and then a lighter star – and then the palest. Now pull the brightest star closer towards you and the paler stars further away to make it 3d. If you can do that, then do it to the whole night sky. It is being under hung lights. Once you see it you cannot go back to seeing the stars as a painted dome over your head”
an explanation to thomas [11],
masked figure acrylic, pigment and gesso on glass
masked figure c1990
masked figure acrylic and oil on glass
masked figure acrylic and oil on glass
acrylic on glass
acrylic on glass
horse with figure oil on canvas [collection of denise and craig marshall]
vessel
bowl painting indigo ink on paper collage set of three for pauline franklyn 062025
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