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2019

The paintings and sculptures you are about to see next, address the imminent threat that our ecology is facing today. I am very enthused by the majestic Ginkgo Biloba tree and the fact that this beautiful living fossil has been on earth around 270 million years and now I was shocked and sad to realise that it is facing extinction after being resilient since the time of the dinosaurs.

I believe that art has the special ability to speak to us in ways we are not even aware of and that this power that art has will make a more lasting impact on people, because art supersedes language and rationality through its immediacy.

ODETTE FARRELL

Wood, paint, ceramic & wire
120 x 25 cm
2019

This piece is inspired by life emerging again from the cracks of broken systems.
Many years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, scientists have found that many species facing risk of extinction have moved to the area attracted by the absence of humans.

For these works in particular, I work with materials I found or that were given to me, like this beautiful rotten piece of wood, which incited me to make this piece.

ODETTE FARRELL

Oil on canvas
123x153cm
2019

The Ginkgo Biloba tree is considered a living fossil. I have found an incredible source of inspiration from this amazing creature.
There was a time, 270 million years ago, during the Jurassic when Ginkgos were widespread throughout the world. Its resistance makes some ginkgos to be more than 2,500 years old and in Hiroshima Ginkgos, though charred, were some of the few living beings that survived the blast and were soon healthy again.
Today Ginkgo is listed as an endangered species. Its distinctive duck’s foot leaves inspirited this and many other paintings.

ODETTE FARRELL

Turquoise gladiolas

Wood, ceramic & wire
2019

ODETTE FARRELL

Wood, ceramic, plaster & wire
2019

ODETTE FARRELL

What happens is

Oil on Canvas
91 x 91 cm
2017

This painting was a threshold in my art journey. After a period of abstraction I played with the idea of a city that was overcome by trees and made this abstract figurative painting that was the incentive to create "Tree of Life", addressing the mass extinction threat, as I believe in the power of art to create consciousness.

ODETTE FARRELL

Turquoise on wood

Wood, ceramic & wire
2019

ceramic
2019

ODETTE FARRELL

Cretaceous egg with roses

Ceramic, plaster & wire
2019

Odette Farrell

Chaosmic Explorations

Oil on canvas
82 x 92cm
2018

This painting is like being in another planet. But it is where most of us live nowadays, isolated from nature. It was chosen by curator Anna Maloney in the main showcase of Hackney WickED group show 2019, as it resembles Hackney Wick skyline, showing all those cranes which are the cause of extreme gentrification in the area.

ODETTE FARRELL

Buds & blue flower

Wood, ceramic & wire
2019

Odette Farrell

Oil on canvas
82x101 cm
2019

The distinctive duck's foot shape ginkgo leaves in autumn are covering the blue city.

ODETTE FARRELL

Ceramic & painted twig
2019

Odette Farrell

Oil on canvas
72 x 102 cm

This painting is about Ginkgos devouring the city. Traces of the city could be seen in some of the fan shaped Ginkgo leaves.

ODETTE FARRELL

Wood, ceramic & wire
2019

ODETTE FARRELL

Prehistoric eggs.JPG

METEORITE LILLIES

Wood, ceramic & wire
2019

ODETTE FARRELL

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