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On Sunday, 3rd November 1996, the ABC's "Sunday Afternoon" with Mary Delahunty presented a profile of the work of West Australian artist and musician Brendon Darby, whose combination of original paintings and music have met with much critical acclaim and demand from art buyers. His exhibition entitled "Listening to Paintings - Kakadu" sold out and a subsequent book, portfolio of prints and CD of the music has since been in continuous demand.
Following his exhibiton in Sydney (July 1997), Brendon embarked on his new project, "Listening To Paintings- Australia". As the name suggests, this endeavour was to take Brendon all over Australia in an attempt to describe it's incredible variety with both paint and music. Although the project was interrupted for seven months with a major commission from Hamersley Iron Ltd (September - March '99), Brendon has finally visited the 10 locations and completed the project.
The "Listening To Paintings" project contemplated the following:
* Ten Major Paintings
* 11 Musical compositions, including the theme
* A presentation pack containing a CD, DVD and booklet of the images
* Exhibition with video and live music presentation which premiered in New York at the American Museum of Natural History in January 2007Brendon's solo exhibition "A Progress Report", presenting some work resulting from the "Listening To Paintings - Australia" project, was on exhibition at Stafford Studios of Fine Art in July 2000.
View a preview excerpt of the Video footage.
"Listening to Paintings - Australia"
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"Black Cockatoos at Obiri"
from "Listening to Paintings - Kakadu"In 1990 I decided to write some music in an attempt to describe in musical terms, the same landscape I was trying to describe with paint. A field trip to Kakadu in the Northern Territory seemed an ideal location for this experiment.
The exhibition at Gallery Australia was well received to the point where all the paintings were sold, with the accompanying music on tape. This left me with the music, but no images. I decided to reproduce the paintings in print form and present them in a portfolio with a cassette of the music.
Some time ago, we decided to re-record the music, replacing some of my not-so-accomplished computerised synthesizer playing with some very fine musicians. It was also decided to produce a book to house the images and the compact disc.
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