JO BERTINI

AVAILABLE WORKS

‘This is landscape that lies beyond our daily experience, but it has always haunted our imagination. The desert is a hard master. Few see through its harshness to the depths of its strange beauty. Jo Bertini is an Australian artist over the decades for whom the desert has become an essential subject, whose paintings resonate from the personal to a wider manifesto. That doesn’t come easily. The struggle is not for control, for taming the desert as others might have tamed the bush - but to expose slender moments of revelation when the desert appears as it is, and the people in it are transformed through being there. The result is powerful and transformative. A few minutes alone with her paintings and the authorised, realist version of the arid landscape slips away, and we are facing the beautiful, strange desert of our imagination, once again.’

(Dr. Philip Jones, Senior Curator South Australian Museum.)

Jo Bertini is an award winning, established Australian artist. She is a painter, art educator, lecturer and writer. She is known internationally for her paintings and drawings of desert landscapes, people and animals. Her work has been acquired by private and public collections both nationally and internationally and is on display in many public art galleries, museums and institutions. She has a history of thirty years as a professional exhibiting artist. Her paintings have been curated in hundreds of solo, group and touring exhibitions, including exhibitions in Australia, China, Malaysia, USA and India. She has been widely published and reproduced and her work is included in films and television documentaries and programs. She has been awarded many art prizes, commissions and public art installations for museums, corporations and city councils and many unique international artist residencies. For ten years she worked as an Expedition Artist on scientific and ecological survey expeditions into the most remote and inaccessible desert regions of Australia. A published art book, ‘Fieldwork - Jo Bertini’, celebrates her long and intimate engagement with the Australian desert. She continues to focus her artistic interests on desert people and places, painting and working in some of the most remote, inaccessible desert regions of the world.

Indian Country 2017 oil on canvas 144 x 144 cm $12,800

Gila Country 2017 oil on canvas 148 x 148 cm $13,500

Evening Claypan 2013 oil on board 124 x 92 cm $10,000

Sand Dune Flotilla 2015 oil on canvas 92 x 92 cm $8,500

Threads and Seams of the White Desert 2015 oil on board 80 x 80 cm $7,500

New Moon, Old Moon 2016 oil on canvas 183 x 168 cm $18,000

Old Wiradjuri Basin 2016 oil on canvas 102 x 200 cm $13,000

Travelling Light - Toko Ranges 2013 oil on canvas 154 x 140 cm $12,000

Dehbaria Rabari 2016 oil on canvas on vintage dowry bag 137 x 81 cm $9,500

Jat Maldhari - Banni 2016 oil on canvas on vintage dowry bag 120 x 94 cm $9,500

Kharai Camel - Mangroves Bachau 2016 gouache on paper mounted 42 x 60 cm $3,000

Travelling the Little Rann 2016 oil on canvas on woven wedding shawl 155 x 162 cm $14,000

Night Grazing Banni Buffalo 2016 gouache on paper mounted 60 x 42 cm $3,000

Hodka Maldhari 2016 gouache on paper mounted 42 x 60 cm $3,000

Raika Mother 2016 oil on canvas on vintage dowry bag 118 x 90 cm $9,000

Jat Maldhari with Baby Goat 2016 oil on canvas on vintage dowry bag 112 x 84 cm $10,000

Lachuben Rabari - Old and New 2016 oil on canvas on vintage woven wedding shawl 130 x 92 cm $11,500

Natives - Pariah Dog & Leopard, Rajasthan 2016 gouache on paper mounted 60 x 42 cm $3,000

Water Gatherers - Chhari Dhand 2016 gouache on paper mounted 42 x 60 cm $3,000

Raika Camel Camp 2016 gouache on paper mounted 42 x 60 cm $3,000

Aravalli Range - Rajasthan 2016 gouache on handmade camel paper 60 x 79 cm (framed) $4,000

Kachchhi Camel 2016 gouache on paper mounted 60 x 42 cm $3,000

Cloud Chasing 2017 oil on canvas 92 x 122 cm $8,500

White River Route 2017 oil on canvas 148 x 148 cm $13,500

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