Celebrated prize-winning painter, sculptor and works on paper artist, Trevor Weekes, will be exhibiting at Nexus Gallery in Bellingen from February 17–March 1 with a beautiful show, ‘Rhapsody in the Floating World’.
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Trevor is inspired by the ability of animals and birds to adapt and evolve to ever-changing environments. In 2005 he spent time in France at Zootheque, the Natural History Museum’s archive, which houses over 80,000 bird specimens. His resulting body of sculptures and paintings were based on hybrid and fantastical species of birds – birds which exist in the infinite possibilities of nature’s (and Trevor’s) imagination.
To date, he has had over 25 solo exhibitions and has exhibited in over 40 group exhibitions and several book publications. Trevor’s work is extensively represented in public collections as well as in private collections in the USA, Britain, Spain and Australia. He is regularly selected for major national prizes. In 2010 his entries were chosen as finalists in the Kedumba Drawing Award and the Rick Amor Drawing Prize.
He has completed many commissions and is represented in numerous Australian collections, including Artbank, Burnie Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, John Darnell Collection, Hamilton Regional Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, Macquarie University, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and the New England Regional Art Museum.
As you would imagine, Trevor’s work can fetch many thousands of dollars. In Bellingen, however, Trevor says that the works will be very affordable, some as low as $100. He is keen now, he says, for his work to be seen and appreciated by as many people as possible, so that they can be inspired by what is possible. Regional galleries, he says, provide that opportunity.
Trevor is also a much-loved teacher of Natural History Illustration at the University of Newcastle and has studied at the National Art School, Canberra School of Art and COFA. In 1999 he received his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle, NSW. Lucky participants in Trevor’s 2019 Camp Creative class, The Art of Drawing Birds, will attest to his gentle brilliance as an artist, a teacher and a scholar.
Rhapsody in the Floating World opens at 5pm, Sunday February 17 at the Nexus Community Gallery at the Old Butter Factory. All very welcome.
