‘Borrowed’ by Carla Tucker is a community exhibition featuring still life paintings that pay homage to existing artworks, including selected pieces from the Town Hall Gallery Collection.
Each new work in the exhibition responds to a painting the artist is drawn to, including portraits, landscapes and still lifes from the twentieth century. Looking closely, Tucker depicts books, Australian native flowers, vases, and more, that echo the colours, materials, or composition of an original piece. Tucker pays respect to past artists by ‘borrowing’ from their legacy, aptly bound in the form of book motifs featured throughout many of the works on display.
Through the lens of reverent still lifes, ‘Borrowed’ celebrates the Town Hall Gallery Collection and the influence of art history on practicing artists by carefully revealing the traces of a painting within another painting.
Many of the artworks in this exhibition are for sale.
Visit our Boroondara Arts shop to purchase an artwork.
Image credit: Carla Tucker, ‘Banksias with Book’, 2022, oil on canvas, 93 x 74cm, image courtesy of the artist.
![Painting of two flower bouquets in vases beside an open book](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/1.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BBanksias%20With%20Book%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=4Yig-czt)
![Painting of Australian native flowers in a blue vase next to an open book](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/2.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BAustralian%20Natives%20with%20Book%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=EXggAay7)
![A bouquet of waratahs in a vase next to an open book](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/3.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BWaratahs%20with%20Book%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px_0.png?itok=ZfKJpk1T)
![Painting of a open book surrounded by gumnuts](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/4.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BGumnuts%20With%20Book%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=OluZAlBM)
![A painting of a bouquet of flowers lying on a grey background](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/5.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BScattered%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=hifPBeKk)
![](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/6.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BKangaroo%20Paw%20with%20Eucalyptus%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=YyEtYNgV)
![](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/7.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BBanksias%20%26amp%3B%20Books%20on%20Stool%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=ShRsZl1m)
Price: $1,750
![Painting of native Australian flowers lying on a cream background](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/8.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BAustralian%20Natives%20in%20Glass%20Vase%20Light%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=d8ooeiMt)
![Painting of Australian native flowers in a short glass vase on a dark grey background](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/9.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BAustralian%20Natives%20in%20Glass%20Vase%20Dark%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px%20%282%29.png?itok=VwlzVuLT)
![A painting of an open book surrounded by native leaves on a grey background](/sites/default/files/styles/council_photo_gallery_small/public/2022-08/10.%20Carla%20Tucker%20%26%23039%3BOpen%20Book%26%23039%3B%201200%20x%20675%20px.png?itok=lsiA2rXF)
Price: $1,400.