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Robyn Sweaney
Rainbows end
acrylic on board
I have always been drawn to paint the exteriors of the more modestly scaled home or building within the Australian landscape. The theme of ‘home’ as a concept has been challenged and adapted over the years as economics and external circumstances have changed.
Rainbows end depicts a front elevation of a small block of units once situated on Bundjalung country near Rainbow Bay in Coolangatta in south east Queensland
Once a home to many it represents many things including a simpler more economical in scale way of life on the coast. Nothing is revealed of what lives went on inside apart from the empty chairs on the front porch and the dichotomy of a rainbow representing hope, new beginnings, and promise. The fence though reveals a complex, emotional and ongoing contemporary narrative suggesting rapid change, and a moment in time.
Size: 45 × 57 cm
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About Robyn Sweaney
Robyn Sweaney was born in Melbourne and currently lives and works in Murwillumbah in northern NSW. Sweaney excavates the complexities of place by responding to the suburban mundane of Australian environments.
Her tightly refined work in acrylic, gouache and graphite is inspired by her local landscape and many road trips throughout rural Australia over the past 25 years.
Sweaney’s work is in the NSW State Library collection, Artbank and numerous other Regional Galleries and private collections throughout Australia and Europe. She has exhibited widely as a solo artist and as part of many selected prize and collaborative exhibitions.
