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Waratah Lahy

- Hand Held World, 2019

  • Waratah Lahy 2019 - Exhibition Install
    Waratah Lahy 2019
  • Lahy - Demolished
    Demolished
  • Lahy - Welcome Home Lightbox
    Welcome home
  • Lahy - Full moon street
    Full moon street
  • Lahy - House Hiding Behind Trees
    House hiding behind trees
  • Lahy - Park at Night 2
    Park at night 2
  • Lahy - Sunset Street
    Sunset street
  • Lahy - Ghost House
    Ghost house
  • Lahy_Pink-house
    Pink house 2
  • Lahy - Night Hedges
    Night hedges
  • lahy - pink cloud
    Pink cloud
  • Lahy - Fence and Tree
    Fence and tree
  • Lahy - Backyard Skyscape
    Backyard skyscape
  • Waratah Lahy - Twilight with bright garden
    Twilight with bright garden
  • Waratah Lahy - Pink flags
    Pink flags
  • Waratah Lahy - Mullet Boy
    Mullet boy
  • Waratah Lahy - Winter garden with crane
    Winter garden with crane
  • Waratah Lahy - Another one bites the dust
    Another one bites the dust
  • Waratah Lahy - Blue twilight
    Blue twilight
  • Waratah Lahy - Building block
    Building block
  • Waratah Lahy - Chevron building
    Chevron building
  • Waratah Lahy - Golden promises
    Golden promises
  • Waratah Lahy - Future fantasy
    Future fantasy
  • Waratah Lahy - Garden at Lake Tarawera
    Garden at Lake Tarawera
  • Waratah Lahy - Braddon henge
    Braddon henge
  • Waratah Lahy - Glimmer of possibility
    Glimmer of possibility
  • Waratah Lahy -Twilight hydrangea
    Twilight hydrangea
  • Waratah Lahy - Downturn
    Downturn
  • Waratah Lahy - Knocking down the neighbourhood
    Knocking down the neighbourhood
  • Waratah Lahy - Rain squall
    Rain squall
  • Waratah Lahy - Sunset street
    Sunset street
  • Waratah Lahy - Ocean views
    Ocean views
  • Waratah Lahy - Man and dog
    Man and dog
  • Waratah Lahy - Imaginary garden
    Imaginary garden
  • Waratah Lahy - House with pink clouds
    House with pink clouds
  • Waratah Lahy - Two blocks from home
    Two blocks from home
  • Waratah Lahy - Building site
    Building site
  • Waratah Lahy - Twilight trees
    Twilight trees
  • Waratah Lahy  - Badden erection
    Braddon erection

Waratah Lahy

8 to 26 May

MAY SPACE

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     My paintings explore scenes from everyday life: houses, homes, windows, streets, gardens and backyards. I paint scenes that evoke a sense of contemplation: focussing on places and moments that exert a quiet influence on those who view them.
     I’ve lived in the same inner-city suburb for the past 20 years and in that time the streets around me have changed dramatically. Houses get knocked down, apartments go up and the skyline is continually changing. My paintings echo the small moments and changes I see in my local environments. I explore scenes that seem familiar and take my time to notice moments of unexpected beauty - repetitions of shapes and patterns and richness of colour. I paint these moments in miniature as a reprieve from the big and grandiose. My neighbourhood becomes palm-sized and these quiet moments offer a way of making new connections with the changing environment.
     The paintings in hand held world have been heavily influenced by my ongoing interest in hand painted magic lantern slides. My fascination with miniatures and magic lantern slides relates to how they function as spaces of imagination. Before the advent of photography and cinema, magic lantern performances transported viewers to new worlds: entertaining, educating and inspiring new ways of thinking, and encouraging discovery of new geographies.  Similarly, miniatures require the viewers to imagine themselves within the painted space – a unique world silently separate and from our own. Hand painted magic lantern slides engage through paradoxical shifts in scale: they are small enough to be held in the hand yet the images can be projected larger than life.

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409b George Street Waterloo NSW Australia 2017
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