Painted Bricks
Ross created an environment in which to live and make art. This process of transformation may have seemed chaotic to the outsider, but to Ross it all made sense. There was a pattern, an order and all objects that came his way could be embraced, used and made into a component of this ever-expanding universe of objects.
Ross Seaton's home August 2020, photograph by Brendan Hutchens.
Along with the large paintings, Ross also began to paint the discarded house bricks that littered the front and back of his property.
Based on a simple boab tree design, these remarkable objects had a function, to secure down the plastic sheeting, but they also formed another avenue for his creative transformation of his immediate environment.
Ross Seaton's home August 2020, photograph by Brendan Hutchens.
Painted bricks, 2015-2020, acrylic on house brick, 7.6 x 23 x 11cm (each). Photograph by Lyle Branson.
Ross Seaton's August 2020, photograph by Brendan Hutchens.
As the front yard began to fill with paintings, objects and stacks of cardboard, the local authorities sent in inspectors to request, and then order, clean up and removal of materials, particularly when they spread out onto the footpath.
This was a frustration to Ross, and his brother Kevin, who had to keep them at bay and ensure a more strident response in the face of continuing ‘bad practice’, from their point of view.
Ross created an environment in which to live and make art. This process of transformation may have seemed chaotic to the outsider, but to Ross it all made sense.
- Ted Snell, curator
Ross Seaton's home August 2020, photograph by Brendan Hutchens.
