Melinda Schawel        
Works In Stock           
 

Words With the Long A Sound
2011
collage, ink on wood
40x40 cm
$900 incl GST

  

Coney Island Baby 2011
collage, ink on wood
40x40 cm
$900 incl GST
     
         

It Feels Right I, II & III 2011 triptych
collage, ink on wood
40x120 cm
$2300 incl GST
               
         

My Mommy Wants to Be an Artist 2010 triptych
mixed media on Claybord
36x84 cm
$1800 incl GST
               
     
     

She Makes Me Want to Be Her 2011 diptych (vertical)
collage, ink on wood
80x40 cm
$1600 incl GST

      
       
 

       
Life's a Toy 2009
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x30 cm
$700 incl GST		 Stuff & Nonsense 2009
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x40 cm
$850 incl GST		        
          
 
Oh the Places You'll Go! 2009
(triptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x100 cm
$1900 incl GST		  
 
      
Don't Cry Wolf 2009 (diptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x60 cm
$1200 incl GST		 It Ain't Easy Being Green 2009
(diptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x70 cm
$1400 incl GST		       
          
       

You Gotta Go There to Come Back 2009
(triptych)
collage, ink, wax on wood
40x100 cm
$1900 incl GST

        
          

       

Twenty Weeks
mixed media on wood
40.5 x 78cm
$1,250 AUD

24.9.06 Sixteen Weeks
mixed media on wood
40.5 x 78cm
$1,250 AUD

       
          
       

Home Again Soon I, II & III
Second State
etching AP
56 x 152cm overall size
$1400 AUD(unframed) for the full series

Home Again Soon I & III
available in 2 sets of colour proofs
56 x 38cm each
$460AUD each (unframed)

        
          
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Aigua Potable
etching 5/32
82 x 42cm
$400AUD
(unframed)		Home Again Soon II
etching
56 x 76cm
$700 AUD
(unframed)		       
          
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From Paris to Firenze
etching 1/20
30 x 30cm
$230
(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