Original Art Gallery
Married to the Land
Ben Crawford
2023
104.5cm x 104.5cm
One-of-a-kind original
Framed in dark oak
In this latest body of work, A Slow Migration, Ben takes us on a journey through stories and experiences as the years rolled by, and he became more settled after migrating from his homeland Ireland to Australia.
Says Ben of his work: “My painting practice over the past few years has been a way for me to come to terms with my feelings about leaving my home and creating another one so far away. As I look now at this body of work there are familiar themes such as the vastness and incomprehensible wildness of the landscape I find myself in.
“Lonely figures are almost swallowed up by the dense, savage undergrowth of the wilderness. But in several of the paintings there are groups of people interacting with each other, with the focus shifting away from their environment. My own family features more prominently now too. I wonder if this is a reflection on whether I have finally migrated after all this time. A sense of community, a family, friendships; I suppose these are the things that make it possible to feel rooted in a new land.
“When I was getting to know my wife, I found it really beautiful how much she loved the land she grew up on. She would wander about the farm lost in a kind of revery, picking guavas, smelling the orange blossoms and dipping her feet in the creek. Eventually I began to love all these things too.”
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