Bern Emmerichs

Bern Emmerichs / Winter Salon

2024

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Stepping Way Over the Line

2023

painted ceramic (fired) and seashells

"Stepping Way Over the Line"

The Tasmanian Tiger, estimated killed 3,500.
The Tasmanian Tiger, often described as a 'shy’ and semi-nocturnal creature. They were granted protection status on the 10th of July 1936, 59 days before the last known tiger died at Hobart Beaumaris 200 on the 7th September 1936 with cause of death being suspected neglect.

Premium (meaning price paid for protection from a loss or harm).

Lager (Glare - a focus on public attention; Large - in a boastful manner and Regal - of notable excellence magnificent)

Cascade (a mass of something that falls or hangs in copious quantities)

$8,500.00

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No Smooth Sailing

2024

painted ceramic (fired) and seashells

60.00 x 47.00 cm

Duncan Campbell (1726-1803) was the influential lynchpin and overseer of the Thames convict prison hulks at Woolwich, and the transportation to Australia between 1776-1801. 
His niece, Elizabeth Betham was married to Captain William Bligh, who regularly sailed on Campbell’s ships to Jamaica, to assist in Campbell’s family sugar and rum estate, ‘Saltspring’.
His two ships Justitia and Censor were used as hulks. Campbell being a private contractor was subject to little regulation. Reports of bad food, hulk fever, and few religious services provided were common and cause for one in four prisoners falling gravely unwell in 1778. In 1802 his contract was not renewed. 
After which the system moved to more direct government control and continued till 1857.

$8,500.00

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Stiff Competition for Justice and Fortitude

2021

painted ceramic (fired) and frame embellished with seashells

30.00 x 90.00 cm

The two female bushrangers at the top are:
1. Mary Ann Bugg (1834-1936), A bold Worimi woman, born in Berrico near Gloucestor in New South Wales. A mother of fifteen children, with relationship to the bushranger Fred Ward who’s alias was Captain Thunderbolt.
 
2. Jessie Hickman (1834-1905), Known as The Lady Bushranger. Jessie established herself as a leader of a gang of cattle duffers in the 1920s. She lived also in New South Wales in the area that is now known as the Woolemi National Park.

The male bushrangers depicted below the women were operating in that same area at that time.

$12,500.00

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The Drover's Wife with the Man from Snowy River N Feral Brumbies

painted ceramic (fired)

90.00 x 60.00 cm (overall, diptych)

Inspired after seeing the award winning movie by Leah Purcell, The Drover's Wife: The Legend Of Molly Johnson. This piece is all about the high country, the controversial issues with brumbies vs the vulnerable and delicate landscape of Australia, along with the culture of the high country cattle men.
Referenced also, Banjo Paterson's famous poem The Man from Snowy River. This poem has always been considered a story portrayed as a white man. However many claims suggest that he was based on events surrounding an Indigenous stockman.

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New and News

2023

painted ceramic (fired)

30.00 x 60.00 cm

North East West South... News and events from all directions.

Featured is Louise Seguin, she was the first European woman to travel to the Antarctic region. Beginning at the age of 14, she disguised herself as a boy in order to travel on the 1772-1773 voyage of Captain Yves Joseph de Kerguelen, on the Roland Ship. It has been suggested that Louise and Yves were lovers. Eventually it was discovered that Louise was a woman and this is said to have contributed to de Kerguelen's 1776 court martial.

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Equine Love

2021

30.00 x 90.00 cm

"Equine Love"

Elizabeth Jessie Hickman and Mary Ann Bugg were both incredible horsewomen. Horses have always been a passion of mine, from a very early age. My self-made red horse stamp is reminiscent of my favourite childhood book, Robert The Rose Horse.
The poem featured is by Joe Pascoe.

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Sea For Yourself

2021

30.00 x 90.00 cm

"Sea For Yourself"

Inspired by the famous Bushranger painting, (1852 St Kilda Rd Elwood reimagined event) by William Strutt, along with the iconic 1950s poster for the Blue Mountains by Jules Henry Roy Rousel 'See For Yourself'. The landscape and way of life in which these two incredible horsewomen called home.
'Sea' not 'See’ is referring to the sea shell frame and sea shells found deep in remote caves after the devastating bushfires of 2019-2020.

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Nothing Succeed Like Success

2020

painted ceramic (fired)

30.00 x 120.00 cm (overall, diptych)

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The Old Lysander

2020

painted ceramic (fired) and mixed media

30.00 x 90.00 cm

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The Ineffable Hulk, The President

2020

painted ceramic (fired)

30.00 x 90.00 cm

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Poking and Thrusting on Lon

2020

painted ceramic (fired) and mixed media

30.00 x 60.00 cm

sold 

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Hidden History

2020

painted ceramic (fired) and mixed media

90.00 x 90.00 cm (overall, triptych)

sold 

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Golden Boy Alias Olsen

2020

painted ceramic (fired) and mixed media

30.00 x 90.00 cm

sold 

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Ruffles on the Rajah

2018

painted ceramic (fired) and seashells

60.00 x 270.00 cm (overall, triptych)

sold 

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Cross Stitched

2018

painted ceramic (fired)

sold 

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Family

2017

painted ceramic (fired) and mixed media

120.00 x 90.00 cm (overall)

sold 

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Ms, Mrs and Miss Demeanours

2018

painted ceramic (fired)

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A Grave Injustice at Boulogne

2017

painted ceramic (fired)

30.00 x 120.00 cm

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Father of Australia

2016

painted ceramic (fired) and mixed media

30.00 x 60.00 cm

sold 

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Bligh's Wiff of the Wattles

painted ceramic and mixed media (fired)

30.00 x 120.00 cm (overall, diptych)