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‘Borrowed’ by Carla Tucker – online exhibition

‘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
Carla Tucker, ‘Banksias with Book’, 2022, oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm, image courtesy of the artist. Price: $2,150.
Painting of Australian native flowers in a blue vase next to an open book
Carla Tucker, ‘Australian Natives with Book, 2022, oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm, image courtesy of the artist. Price: $2,150.
A bouquet of waratahs in a vase next to an open book
Carla Tucker, ‘Waratahs with Book’, 2022, oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Painting of a open book surrounded by gumnuts
Carla Tucker, ‘Gumnuts with Book’, 2022, oil on canvas, 59 x 74 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
A painting of a bouquet of flowers lying on a grey background
Carla Tucker ‘Scattered’, 2022, oil on canvas, 59 x 74 cm, image courtesy of the artist. Price: $1,750
Carla Tucker, ‘Kangaroo Paw with Eucalyptus’, 2022, oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Carla Tucker, ‘Banksias & Books on Stool’, 2022, oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,750
Painting of native Australian flowers lying on a cream background
Carla Tucker, ‘Australian Natives in Glass Vase Light’, 2022, oil on canvas, 59 x 54 cm, image courtesy of the artist. Price: $1,400
Painting of Australian native flowers in a short glass vase on a dark grey background
Carla Tucker, ‘Australian Natives in Glass Vase Dark’, 2022, oil on canvas, 59 x 54 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
A painting of an open book surrounded by native leaves on a grey background
Carla Tucker, ‘Open Book’, 2022, oil on canvas, 59 x 54 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,400.

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