Two Dogs Art Space Akashi アートスペース明石

Two Dogs Art Space Akashi 

 アートスペース明石

Peter Davidson

ピータ・デビッドソン

Amorphous Shape

 アモルファス（無定形）な形

Maquettes - Drawings

マケット（粘土模型）－　デッサン

 I like this body of work a lot... on the one hand very “classically academic” but also powerfully conceptual

Facebook comment by Dr Duncan Mckay artist /writer

I reject your gaze that considers me ugly.

私を醜いいと思うあなたの視線を拒否します。

As there is no such thing and beauty is an independent sensation not a collective measure. ”美しいもの”など存在しません、”美”とはただ個人の感覚であって、普遍的なものさしではないのですから。

Some of the supporters on the first weekend 

My painting donated to the Hospital has been placed .

After three years of painting it was put on the wall so patients recovering from all sorts of ailments have pleasant space in which to do so. Painting this size is not easy there is a lot of aesthetic problems to be overcome, such as balancing the hues, tones and contrasts across a large area, many thanks to the Doctor and the hospital for allowing me to paint such an ambitious image.  

Ogatsu Ishinomaki 3/11 Tsunami memorial exhibition Peter Davidson

Ogatsu Ishinomaki 3/11 Tsunami Damage

This month at 2 Dogs Art Space there will be a Ogatsu Ishinomaki 3/11 Tsunami Memorial Exhibition  featuring my artworks. Four and half months after the tsunami hit I went several times to  Ogatsu Ishinomaki  a fishing village with a Surgeon who was helping the people there to recover, these five trips lasted three days (I was donating paintings to temporary medical emergency centers). 

I so admire the Japanese people with the way they worked together in achieving to get the  community going again, it was humbling to see.

This image was taken out of the back of the car going into Ogatsu, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Morning over Ogatsu

 The town was totally obliterated but strangely the place look so beautiful.

Fishing Town relics with distant smashed Ogatsu Fisherman's Coop

It was unbelievable to walk to this part of the Ogatsu village in the morning on the road, then in the afternoon you couldn't get there as the ocean tide came in and flooded the area and there were little fish swimming over the white line in the middle of the street.

These paintings remain unfinished.

Dr Peter Davidson

Donation project to the Doctors Rehabilitation Room is finished

It has taken about three years to complete these five large paintings that are approximately 10 meters wide by 1.6 meters high, there have been some major changes to the image after consultation with the Doctor who was researching how to present the best environment for patients to recover in physically while making it a nice space for there recovery therapy to happen.

The paintings now get  wrapped up and sent to his hospital, many thanks to all those who have supported this project in Japan I'm am grateful to your generosity. 

Remembrance exhibition Sadaharu Horio 1939 - 2018 Rest in Peace

Artworks by Sadaharu Horio

Today at 2 Dogs Art Space Akashi a small remembrance exhibition has been set up in respect to the passing of the Japanese Artist Sadaharu Horio who resided in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture which is the sister state to Western Australia.

The Western Australians who came into contact with Horio either personally or  through his artworks appreciated the connection, there is no doubt much was gleaned from such interactions by the artists from the northern and southern hemispheres of this planet.

In the above photographs is a collection of quotidian artworks by Horio that have been acquired from galleries in Kansai or at times he has generously gave them to me, for which I am grateful, they're  good memories.

Please enjoy this memory of Sadaharu Horio artworks now on show 

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 2 Dogs Art Space Akashi 

Currently at 2 Dogs Arts Space painting for the Doctor and Xmas exhibition

Awaji Shima (Island)

 Unfinished 

acrylic on canvas

2 panels of 11m w x 1.75 m h

Currently at 2 Dogs Art Space the above painting of Awaji Shima from Akashi is still a work progress for the Doctor.  It has been a difficult painting and the detailing of the artwork is proving demanding, will soon show further images of progress but hopefully it will be completed by Xmas.

Also there is a Xmas exhibition of Western Australian Artists being organised

 and this includes the Wild Swans Art Group 

so things are busy at the moment.

There will be some new Western Australian artists in the Xmas exhibition 

this will be announced soon, thank you again for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you at the art space.

Eight Women Artists from Western Australia

Blue Series no 3  Cynthia Ellis 

Oil on Canvas 

2 Dogs Akashi Japan

Presents

Eight Women Artists from Western Australia

Lynne Norton Cynthia Ellis Connie Petrillo Chelle Bourne Sally Douglas Linda Fardoe Melissa Nolan Melissa Nolan McDougall Shelley Cowper

The contribution by woman artists who have resided in Western Australia along with their impact on the present/historical aesthetics of that’s states societal memory has been outstanding and continues to grow into uncharted aesthetic horizons which no doubt will leave a rich legacy for generations of artists to glean knowledge from in the future .

2 Dogs Art Space Akashi Japan has the pleasure in presenting this exhibition of a smallish selection of women artists who work or have worked as artists in Western Australia which is a sister state of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan where the Gallery is located. 

The exhibition has now closed many thanks to those who came and those who supported us on the internet.