The Fairy of Sharp Edges was my first step towards 'Fay'.
The Shorter Oxford dictionary says that the word means both fairy and dross. This seemed relevant to me. The traditional fairy is invisible, an unseen power, but has become historically reduced from a place of cautious respect to quaint irrelevance.
I grew up with the safe Edwardian fairy folk of Arthur Rackham only later in my teens discovering the otherworldly demented Victorian fairy painter Richard Dadd. This is a long way from the post-Tolkien, “World of Warcraft” universe of elves and dwarfs in today’s youth culture.
James Guppy, 2008
Select Exhibitions
- The Flower Show - a curated group exhibition of all things botanical
- James Guppy - Fay
- Melbourne Art Fair 2008 - Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
- Memento Mori - a curated group exhibition
- Narrative - a curated group exhibition
- I'm as Mad as Hell ... Curated Group Exhibition
- Art + Humour Too - Curated Group Exhibition
- James Guppy - The Weather Reports
STOCKROOM SEARCH
Stockroom: James Guppy
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The Cutting
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Lady Gray
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Lady Gray Departing
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Meta Luna
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The Struggle
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Remembering Moisture
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A Tussle of Pastries
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Waiting
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Dancing Imagos
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The Weather Reports - Study #12
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The Weather Reports - Study #5
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The Weather Reports - Study #4
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Michael's Garage
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Mowing the Easement
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Early Morning, Sunrise Boulevard
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Onanistic Hammer
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Playground Embrace
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Between Two Gulls
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Mishap
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Woman and Man Lying on a Couch
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Man and Woman Watching
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Peeping Box #13
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Peeping Box #3
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Peeping Box #2
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