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Drawing, Pencil on Paper
Size: 16.5 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in
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Picture now if you are able White cloth covered kitchen table One man sits among his own life stains Trying to squeeze some fools-gold wisdom Through the gaping hole in his reasoning And wrestling with the blank space that remains He sinks into his minds eye corner Joins the stream of hopes and schemes As the void bursts into fantasy and dreams North had jumped to 4 spades Broke her heart and palmed the diamonds Still the laughing mute with baited breath Was fishing for chance answers to her quest The dealers's hand was led and lost South won the game but paid full cost Your fate is sealed in a self addressed stamped envelope "Can you guess the rest," she said And down by the corner a sidecar is rammed Two plastic containers are holding my hand They've been trying to stretch me into an elastic band Performing silent songs for humanity So I stand beneath the memory sieve And watch the fractured images That drift anf fade before my vacant gaze Wondering just where I've been What was heard and done and seen That dictates the blank space I'm in today But there's a light in the sky As the underground flies by See the pen and ink are drawing close A picture line and hook secure the past. There's a highrise mental block scarred land Where knots are tied by idle hands And multinational man with government plans Sells sticking tape to a million hungry mouths He's like a razor that walks on a tightrope of hair A face with no sockets that's continually staring You can nail our hands to your napalm plans But our hearts are determined To share the world with dignity. Richard Heley
Drawing:Pencil on Paper
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Size:16.5 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in
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Richard Heley is a Painter, live performace painter, interactive painting with children, International performance poet and storyteller. Wild surrealist, philosophical dreamer, beautiful colourist, wacky storyteller with universal poetry. Nicholas Usherwood, Art Critic, writes of Richard : "Performance painting, poetry slam champion, interactive art with young children - such activities are not the normal profile of a committed and intensely serious-minded and hugely prolific artist but then Richard Heley's whole creative career has not followed any remotely conventional pattern. Born in Bedfordshire in 1950, he emigrated, aged 15, with his whole family, to Australia. It was a liberating decade spent there during which he quickly and, for the first time, became aware of the strength of his creative instincts and though he would have loved to go on to art school, family economics dictated a teacher training course at the Melbourne College of Education. In the strongly egalitarian society that Australia then was, this was no advantage however, such institutions being powerhouses for social and cultural change and Richard Heley found himself among some remarkably gifted and passionate teachers, most particularly in the sculpture class. Though this was not to prove his particular artistic direction, one senses, from the way he talks about this period of his life, that it was the attitude of this particular teacher, which has stayed with him ever since. But, not long after finishing there, a nostalgia for home and the fate of his village football team (of which he and an 80 year old man had been virtually the sole supporters!) drew him back to England where, painting and performing furiously, he has been based ever since. As might be expected from all of this, the painting that has emerged, particularly over the last ten years or so as he has slowly started to focus on his own rather than his more collaborative artistic activities, reflects this extreme unconventionality.
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