David Green Enquiry
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Biography
Emeritus Professor David Green is a fulltime artist living on the Sunshine Coast. Before retiring from his academic career he was Head of the Wagga Wagga Campus of Charles Sturt University and a former Chair of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council. He is author of four books, has had more than 10 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 50 selected and curated exhibitions.
Green has been a selected finalist in numerous National and International art awards and his work is held in many Public Collections including the Sienna Institute of Art Italy, Brooklyn Art Library NY, Power House Museum Sydney, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Tas., Victorian State Craft Collection, Ararat City Art Gallery Vic., Tamworth National Fibre Collection NSW., Albury City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Ballarat University Collection, and Charles Sturt University Collection to name a few.
All of these works are created with an old-fashioned dip pen and Indian ink on paper. Any additional colour is usually watercolour.
I grew up in Dickens country, that part of Kent that when I was a child was rural, when summers were long and railways ran with smoky coal engines puffing clouds of steam and hot smoke that had a particular and special smell that lingered long after the train had passed. A time when mum’s holiday was spent hop picking , up at five or so to ride in an open lorry to the hop fields, the tally man would twice a day call out the number of bushels picked as the hops where placed in a big yellow “poke” sacks to be carried away by huge Clydesdale horses to the oast house. It now sounds so romantic and bucolic but the truth is it was hard and tedious work, mum loved the cameraderie, the banter and the rivalry and no doubt the money earned , for mum it was the the highlight of her year. I would far have preferred being down on the mud flats with the rotting barges, the mud islands, catching green crabs or “tickling” for fish.
As a student in Rochester, (Kent) I drew many of the historical building , the Cathedral, with its Norman architectural beginnings, the Keep of the Norman castle built to guard the river crossing and Restoration house;( “Satis House”the home of Miss Havisham In Charles Dickens Great Expectations).
Dickens wrote two endings to the novel (I must say I prefer the original ending over the seemingly second happy ending where Pip and Estella wander off together) Given that Dickens had two endings; In these works I explore the vagaries of what might have been it If certain characters acted differently or some actions never took place.