Art Residency - Mary Cairncross Reserve

Mary Cairncross Reserve Art Residency 15-25 October , 2021

As the creative researcher on the Art + Entomology project I will be following scientists from the Queensland Museum during their 6 day research programme in the rainforest and recording their discoveries in paper, ink and paint.

Following the research programme there will be a 4 day public engagement programme - Tiny Giants . There will be a variety of workshops, panel discussions and guided walks with the scientists. Refer to the link for the Tiny Giant events below. What an opportunity this is for everyone to learn about invertebrates. 

The 10 day residency will be followed by an exhibition of artwork inspired by the research project. The exhibition will be at the  Mary Cairncross Reserve Discovery Centre in April, 2022.

I am looking forward to this project and particularly creating paper insects. 


Tiny Giants Programme
About Tiny Giants (sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au)
Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve (sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au)

painting and paper insects - Lesley Kendall

Art + Entomolgy

Delighted to have been selected as the creative researcher in residence at the Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve in October. I will be working with scientists from the Queensland Museum as they undertake their invertebrate biodiversity survey .

paper moth made by Lesley Kendall

Cont.

Continuing on where I finished off….

Wallum cont.

Paper Beetle

The Cactus House

succulent. Exhibition. June, 2021

A black paper beetle on a paper rock.

succulent green walls

succulent. exhibition

Side gallery

17 - 26 June 2021

life meets art

In The Cactus House, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden, June 2021

life meets art.

Working in the succulent garden I witnessed a real Noisy Miner bird meet my paper Noisy Miner placed under the Aloe bush in The Cactus House, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden. What a commotion!

I created the paper Miner bird in response to a ‘sighting’ by Ari, the gardener in The Cactus House, who observed the Noisy Miners swooping in to suck the nectar from the Aloe flowers.

Side Gallery

Side Gallery Exhibition - 17 June - 26 June.

Preparations and Installation.

7 Emma Street, Red Hill

info@sidegallery.com.au

Mobile 0409 549 447

Garden to Gallery

62 paper succulents- made from recycled papers, dyed with natural plant dyes and painted with watercolour and ink.

10 days embedded in The Cactus House to 10 days exhibited in Side Gallery.

The Cactus House - studio to garden

62 Paper Succulents created from recycled paper embedded in the succulent garden in the The Cactus House, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden. 4 June - 13 June.

My intention was to create an artwork that faded into nature. The paper succulents were placed on a sand path winding its way through the succulent garden.

paper succulents, 2021

303 porcelain moths

The porcelain moths were created during lockdown, to depict the fragility and fleeting nature of life and to remind us of the impermanence of all things.

They are currently in an installation in Artisan Machinery Street Gallery, Fortitude Valley till the 22 May.

At night they sparkle in the darkened street.

Poem

Poem 4 and 3.

flutter flutter

paper moth being created in the studio.

A week on the island

A week on the island - walking and painting

“This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful”

— Agnes Martin

on line shop is open

The online shop is open again. There are paper moths and bees and small moth paintings for sale.

Press the button below to go to the Big Cartel shop or you can access it from the SHOP link in the menu. Please have a browse. If you have any queries or requests - please contact me. thank you. Les

Assorted paper moths for sale - Lesley Kendall, 2019

Exhibition at the Side Gallery

Exhibition at The Side Gallery, Red Hill

29 August - 13 September, 2019

garden.

The exhibition was a wonderful experience. Leesa Hickey, gallery owner, and Laura Brinnin, curator, were a great team to work with. They displayed the work beautifully in the space.

Thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition and purchased work. I feel so grateful.

Thank you also to the five women - Joy, Kate, Suzanne, Susan and Sharon - whose Brisbane gardens inspired the work. Below is a photo of Joy (in the black skirt) and her friend Jeanette visiting the exhibition.

Now its onto new work.

garden meadow

I am painting little weeds that I pick in the garden.

“A weed is but an unloved flower” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A May garden

Beautiful in May

The rain is falling, the Salvias are flowering and the garden is full of birds and bees.

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Sharon's Garden - Begonias in the rain

Painting Begonias from Sharon’s garden on a rainy Autumn day .

“An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Susan's inner city garden

Susan’s garden is hidden behind a high gate on a busy street. What a lovely surprise it is. Macadamia trees, Pomegranates, grasses, flowers, an assortment of shrubs and a huge Pepper tree.

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately”

— John Ruskin

Suzanne's succulent garden

The prettiest succulent garden perched on the edge of a concrete driveway.

Those colours - a mix of lilac, sage green, grey ,the blush of pink……

I will be busy here for a few more weeks. Happily.

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