Design and Art Australia Online

His paintings recollect a recent culture which is now past. They use the visual absurdity of garage sales to capture the 1970/80s through music, furniture, decoration, art, and toys. Although personal in some respects, they may also be considered a comic form of history painting. Ironically, Keeling usually locates the garage sales in the suburban fringe – where new streets and houses are encroaching on natural bush land. In this sense, the ‘garage sale paintings’ are an interesting extension of his oeuvre which consistently references the problematic idea of property in a Tasmanian context.

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2013

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2013