Author: Patricia Van Lubeck

Patricia’s latest series pinpoints familiar human characteristics and paints them as refreshingly positive statements of individualism. Her series of landscapes are though-provoking metaphors personifying the endless roles we all inhabit throughout life. Trees are painted as symbols to represent particular characteristics. Patricia believes that the universality of the subject -together with the story of each painting- will prompt the viewer to identify fragments of their own selves (or fragments of their own experiences) in her work.

Stage

Strictly it might be not public art because it is not located in a public space. But at the other hand; there are not much larger works where a real audience sitting in front of it. The stage in the back space of Studio Amsterdam was bare brown and full of ugly stains. That was […]

List of exhibitions

2022 Playstate, Newcastle, Australia (30 Sep – 23 Oct)2022 Frogman gallery, Beijing (ongoing)2022 Blackstone galery, Newcastle, Australia (13 – 29 May) 2021 Bluethumb, Art award, FINALIST 2020 Wag the tail, Bolt space, Maitland (7 nov – 29 nov)2020 Plants, Botanic gardens, Sydney (25 July – 2 Aug) Finalist 2019 Aspire footsquare, Paddington, Australia (17 – […]

Gasworks Maitland

This design suggests a reference to the former gasworks in Maitland, which now houses the Reading Cinema. It is an abstracted version of pipes and machines with a touch of art deco. Although some people see a racetrack or a printed circuit board in it. Or even Aztec characters.The color scheme has been chosen taking […]

Rug in Newcastle

When we were painting the mural in Newcastle, we had a chat with the owner of the bar just around the corner. He was also the owner of the bar 2 doors down my house & studio in Maitland. So, he knew about the rug I painted on the footpath in front of my door. […]

Rugs in Morpeth

Six months after I painted the rug on the footpath in front of my door, I found a Call For Artists in my inbox. It was sent by Council and what they had in mind was quite similar of what I already had done. But on a larger scale. And they would like to have seen some […]

Mural in Newcastle

This project was part of The Big Picture Fest where 12 artists each got a wall to paint, which they had to complete in 5 days. It had taken place in other cities in Australia before, but never in Newcastle.The first mural that we already created in Maitland apparently made an impression, as I was […]

Literal street art

The footpath in our part of the street is very old and outdated, with a lot of cracks in it and endless patched up areas. I decided to created something artistic on it and see if people would like it. If not, then it would take me only 30 minutes to paint it back to […]

Bob’s Bird Barn

For about a century this building in the center of Maitland, was home to the Carrington Hotel, which closed down in the 1980’s. Then came a pet store named Bob’s Bird Barn. But the last few decades the building is empty and neglected by the owner. To prevent more deterioration, the Council closed the windows […]

Mural in Maitland

In September the Maitland council did a call out to artists to come up with a idea for a 18 x 9 meter wall. Frank sent them a design based on one of my paintings, photoshopped on the wall. The council chose us to create it.We asked another artists (Andrew Bennett) to help us and […]

Bendigo Art Award

What a surprise when I got called on a quiet Sunday afternoon.“You’ve won the first prize.”“WHAT???”“You have won the first prize!” Earlier I had entered The Waller Art Prize. An inaugural &prize exhibition, first held in October 2018 at Trades Hall in Bendigo. The Prize was initiated by in honour of Bendigo Artist & BendArts […]

The sign is on

It has been a while since I posted an update about our move to Australia. Well, last year we found our perfect dream home, with a large shop window in the main street of Maitland. Maitland is about 30 kilometres from Newcastle. It has beautiful historic buildings and a railway to Newcastle and Sydney. Maitland […]