Melinda Schawel        
Works In Stock           
 

       
Life's a Toy 2009
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x30 cm
$660 incl GST		Stuff & Nonsense 2009
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x40 cm
$800 incl GST		       
          
      
Don't Cry Wolf 2009 (diptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x60 cm
$1100 incl GST		It Ain't Easy Being Green 2009 (diptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x70 cm
$1300 incl GST		      
          
       
Don't Let Me Down 2009
(diptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x60 cm
SOLD

Palms & Oleanders 2009
collage, ink, wax on wood
36x28cm
$600 incl GST

      
          
       
Oh the Places You'll Go! 2009
(triptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x100 cm
$1800 incl GST		         
          
       
Reinventing Yourself 2009
( triptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x100 cm
$1800 incl GST SOLD		         
          
       

You Gotta Go There to Come Back 2009
(triptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x100 cm
$1800 incl GST

        
          
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No Going Back, 2009
mixed media on clayboard
Framed size 90 x 74.5cm
Individual pieces are
20 x 25cm (x9)
$3,500AUD		         
          

       

Twenty Weeks
mixed media on wood
40.5 x 78cm
$1,200 AUD

24.9.06 Sixteen Weeks
mixed media on wood
40.5 x 78cm
$1,200 AUD

       
          
       

Home Again Soon I, II & III
Second State
etching AP
$1340 AUD(unframed) for the full series

Home Again Soon I & III
available in 2 sets of colour proofs
56 x 38cm each
$440AUD each (unframed)

        
          
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Aigua Potable
etching 5/32
82 x 42cm
$396AUD
(unframed)		Home Again Soon II
etching
56 x 76cm
$660 AUD
(unframed)		       
          
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From Paris to Firenze
etching 1/20
30 x 30cm
$220
(unframed)		Ma Chere
etching 1/20
30 x 30cm
$220
(unframed)		    
       
During her travels Melinda Schawel developed a habit of trawling book stores and flea markets, unearthing bundles of old correspondence, most of which was in languages unfamiliar to her. She found these old forgotten letters and postcards to be poignant and unsettling, and inspiration for this recent body of works, ‘out of touch’. In an image saturated society Schawel’s works gives the viewer welcome relief with it’s subtle shifts of light and shape. There is a gentle melancholy to these paintings that echo the words and evoke the memories of long ago friendships.

When used as social or political statement text can often alter our experience of the visual arts. However, Schawel uses scraps of foreign text not only for it’s aesthetic qualities, but to create her own visual language, one that might serve as a bridge across cultures when words alone cannot.

All works are mixed media on wood, various combinations of ink, acrylic, varnish, cracking medium, glazes and wax