Sam Woodward Verified listing

Two pink and grey paper-mache Galah's fly over a 3 dimensional dot painted landscape. The Galah is my spirit animal and the Galah in this artwork represent the spirit and life journey of my grandmother and me.

Where I now live I am surrounded by country wire fences and paddocks. My painting is an exploration of the never ending fence that connects my new life to my past and speaks of a duality and of having two homes. Four Magpie sit across a barbed wire fence on the boundary between the paddock and a country garden strangled by weeds. The foliage thick and tangled contains over 300 plants I have individually sculpted using paper and wire to build a 3 dimensional garden. The garden longs to escape it's canvas, it is alive and sways in a breeze like a real field.

The painting True Blue represents a Blue Bottle riding the crest of a wave. The painting is called true blue as Australian's have a collective memory of Blue bottles as the majority of our population lives on the coast. The blue bottle reminds me of summer. And to say something is "True Blue " is to say something is Australian. I have tried to recapture the translucent opalescence that shimmers in sunlight and the vibrant electric blue intensity of their colour. The vibrant blue tendrils are layers of pattern which I have sculpted out of various art materials that glow in the dark. Within the wave, layers of epoxy resin hide sculpted plankton, dot mandalas and bioluminescence which are seen in depth at night. My work is unique in that I don't just layer epoxy I paint and sculpt epoxy. My painting is about light, dark, beauty, pain and hidden worlds that inspire me.

I feel very passionate about trying to conserve the critically endangered Australian Swift parrot and my painting aims to inform the public about Swift parrot issues so that we can work together to help conserve them. It is imperative that we wo9rk as citizen scientists to track the parrots, crowd fund to build boxes that will keep out Sugar gliders and pressure the government to put an immediate halt on logging of old growth forests and Swift parrot habitats. My painting is of a maze and within the maze is bird watchers, a barren landscape of logged tree stumps, sugar gliders killing eggs, birds, fledglings , nest and a child. In the centre of the picture is a Swift parrot nest. Within the nest is the last swift parrot being stolen by the hand of Sugar Glider while a girl child watches on in horror. The girl represents my inner child which is horrified at the thought of the loss of the Swift Parrot through inaction. The painting is 3 dimensional paper sculpture and is in a naive style giving reference to children's stories,