Fossilphila, Metro Arts Brisbane 2003
Madeleine Kelly is an Australian painter living and working from Woolongong Australia.
Madeleine Kelly, Painter, Artist,
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    Fossilphila, Metro Arts Brisbane 2003

    Fossilphilia – meaning to love fossil fuels – is an exhibition about humanity’s insatiable desire to consume fossil fuels, and how this desire stops at nothing to achieve fulfilment, not even war. The presence of treeless tree shadows hint of absence and ephemeral resources, while their flat dimensions, akin to the compressed layers of ancient plants that form oil, become a setting for human civilization and its consuming folly.

    These paintings were made before the Unites States strike on Iraq in 2003, a strike that occurred while the exhibition was open. Many of the works from this show were later exhibited in Primavera 2005.

    Madeleine Kelly Logic Block 2003, oil on polyester 115 x 90cm
    Logic Block 2003 oil on polyester 115 x 90cm
    Madeleine Kelly Illogical Box 2003 oil and Letraset on polyester 90 x 115cm
    Illogical Box 2003 oil and Letraset on polyester 90 x 115cm
    Madeleine Kelly Blood for Oil 2003 Oil on gesso board 21 x 14cm
    Blood for Oil 2003 Oil on gesso board 21 x 14cm
    Madeleine Kelly Blood for Oil 2003 Oil on gesso board 21 x 14cm
    Blood for Oil 2003 Oil on gesso board 21 x 14cm
    Madeleine Kelly The Paradox of Ascent 2003
    The Paradox of Ascent 2003
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    Metro Arts, Brisbane

    Dates

    2003

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