Stephen Brameld & Jay Staples

Freshwater Bay, 2024

90 × 120 cm oil, acrylic, sand on board

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Art Leven Gallery Award Winner

This is a painting of Freshwater Bay on the banks of the Swan River in Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia. Bushland meets grass meets sand meets water. Karrakatta refers to the sandbar in Freshwater Bay and means ‘the place of crabs’. A red sail turns away from the viewer at the centre of the composition, pointing north to south. A nautical flag resembling Xray (stop your intention) blows towards the bottom right as an Eastern Osprey enters above. We see the bay from both the rivers edge and from a topographical perspective.