John Baird 'Still Life' the field revisited The 2023 screenprint layer transforms

The 2023 screenprint layer transforms the map’s original didactic purpose

This tree fills the frame

indulging us in the possibility of a reality more magical and mysterious than it appears

In 'Untitled (Purple Flock)

Ryan is the subject of a monograph and was celebrated in 2015 with a major retrospective at The Warrnambool Art Gallery

John Baird 'Still Life' the field revisited The 2023 screenprint layer transformsThis intimate bronze maquette by Mornington Peninsula artist John Baird captures four decades of looking, making and refining in a sculpture that feels both assured and quietly playful. A finalist in the 2025 McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery Maquette: Sculpture Award for another bronze Still Life, Baird brings to this work the same considered sense of composition that defines his paintings his characteristic intimate picture plane here unfolding