Curator Statement
Anybody who’s had the pleasure of being on Sydney Harbour at night when there’s some kind of celebration going on, will hopefully understand this picture. Again I’ve made it with a deliberate decorative border, I’ve got fireworks, a liner is going down the harbour, the full moon is out: it’s an incredibly romanticised vision of that kind of image. And I was very pleased when the world famous jazz musician James Morrison chose to write a piece of music to this painting. I’m still occasionally making pictures about the feeling of the harbour at night; they may be slightly more, I hate to use the word sophisticated, but I guess they’ve moved on from this image but, in a sense, this is about the kind of thrill of being on Sydney, at night, during a celebration.
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