NEIL McCLURE
BBQ Under a Bull Nose Verandah
Acrylic on wood 41 x 52cm
The barbecue is one of many recurring motifs throughout my work. The barbecues are a universal symbol of our hopes and dreams and a very Australian icon at the same time. In this work the humble backyard barbecue is depicted using discarded house paint. My paintings are an examination and a critique of our bourgeois Australian existence in the twenty-first century.I build all my canvases by hand using plywood, masonite or MDF board, second-hand when I can find it. The paints I use are all old, discarded house paints, mostly semi-gloss, water-based acrylic.