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    Andy Pye

    "I approach the Australian Bush at face value, and from inside it. There’s no hidden meaning to my work. It is the Australian Bush."

    This is how Andrew Pye surmised much of his landscape art in recent years. But as 2020 was ushered in, Pye was painting with usual prolific energy "rain, hail or shine" through a bushfire affected North East Victorian summer of "bloody hot 'n' hazy" proportions. We have seen from this the first pictures of his interesting and provocative portraiture approach, including several public figures sitting for the experience.

    In the realm of tree-dense landscapes, for which he has become well known on the Australian art scene, we see works showing vast expression were being created over the summer of 2020 in large new sizes.
    The level of abstraction to the works was now on a more obvious spectrum, after his knockout work Welcome to the You Yangs was introduced the year earlier, opening the floodgates to a whole new genre of pictures and their collectors for Pye.

    But away from the public, Pye has set up studio in Wangaratta, where he (along with his wife and four children) live "in oasis".

    Writing bush poetry daily, painting and sculpting, Pye has found time to somehow complete a teaching and pedagogy Masters degree with a focus on Indigenous broad histories and culture. Through his reading and academic study, and his interest in theology, Pye (of Russian Orthodox faith) now reveals new layers of meaning behind his work that for many years were omitted in his artist statements.

    The trees are imbibed anew and a discussion about society, Indigeneity, faith and conservation exists, that retrospectively has always been the case he claims.

    “I block them like actors on a stage” says Pye, who, in his 20th year painting, admits it might be “difficult” to get away with the same old throw-away line about his work.

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    Creek Near Nug Nug
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    Hot Rocks Out Near Mt. Buggary
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    Snake Hotel Out Near Mitta Mitta
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    Aggies Out Back of Violet Town
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    Gully View Mansfield
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    Holbrook Elevation
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    Dry Creek Bed Cosmos
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    Bullnose Stadium at Tallangatta
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    Doughies Out Front of the Royal
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    Mongrel Spooked By Rain, Locksley Caravan Park
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    Twelve Apostles
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    Mitta Mitta Half Time Kick
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    Cockies vs Bush Chickens
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    Flock of Cockies, Locksley Reserve
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    Hot Day V
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    Hot Day VI
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    Lake Mountain, Marysville Reserve
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    Nug Nug Oval
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    Warby Stump
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    Ferns at Skenes Creek
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    The Very Base of Mt. Abrupt
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    Reef Hill
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    Pumping Neons Near Edi River
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    Forrest
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    Grass Trees at Glenrowan
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    Driftwood
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    Afternoon Light, Mansfield
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    Apollo Bay Foreshore
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    Beacon Point
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    Apostle
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    Birthing Tree, Anglesea
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    Bush Behind Lorne
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    Bush Block
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    Dunes, Apollo Bay
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    Fairhaven, View From Dinghy
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    Port Campbell Rockface
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    Rockpool at Fairhaven
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    Streeton's View at Lorne
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    Trees Near Mt Buller
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    Hot Day V
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    Bushland Looking at Buffalo
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    Hot Day VI
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    Trees in Moriac
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    Welcome To The You Yangs
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    Agapanthas Growing in Anglesea
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    You Yangs, Plain View
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    Study of Reef Hill
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    Falls Creek
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    Hot Day IV
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    New Growth on Burnt Tree
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    Vinnie
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    Hot Day Series III
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    Hot Day Series IV
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    Hot Day Series II
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    Hot Day Series I
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    Hanging Rock
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    Otways Study
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    Brick Mine Study III
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    Road to Skipton II
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    Stump
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