Babette Robertson | And her hallway moves like the ocean, 2026
Robertson
But the carpark was in this cave with bright lights from above shining through. It was hard to tell whether it came from industrial fluorescent strips or from openings in the rock letting in daylight, 2026 water-based pigment and oil on linen
130 x 97 x 3.5 cm
#41900
$7,200
It was sort of a rainbow but not in the way I expected, 2026 water-based pigment and oil on linen
195 x 130 x 2.5 cm
#41901
$10,300
Then a man lowered me down a mountain face on this pulley-like system towards a lake. I was going so fast. Everything was out of my control, 2026 oil on linen
130 x 97 x 2.5 cm
#41902
$7,200
Babette Robertson
I had tickets to a prestigious theatre/opera but I wanted to give them away. Everyone told me I was crazy and wouldn't take them. I knew the curtains were green and I thought they should be red, 2026
water-based pigment on linen
130 x 97 x 2.5 cm
#41903
Babette Robertson
We are watching the trees in the old campsite at night, as if we are spectators of a film. Then someone pulls out a painting I did and asks what it is. It's dark with super bright lights in the sky. Like the northern lights - but also artificial. There are some fields in the foreground of the painting but when we look at them they disappear and are replaced by the same eucalyptus trees we are looking at in the campsite. The painting is supposed to be a bushfire but no one believes me, 2026 water-based pigment and oil on linen
130 x 162 x 2.5 cm
#41905
$9,200
They gift me a bird. We are in a high apartment but it feels like a treehouse. We stand on the balcony looking down at three trees. I believe it is spring. One tree has red leaves with yellow flowers, one has yellow leaves with red flowers. One tree is green. I want to point out the colours to them, but when I look again, only a few leaves and no flowers remain. I realise that it isn't spring after all, but autumn turning into winter., 2026 oil on linen
162 x 114 x 3.5 cm
#41906
$8,700
Babette Robertson
THEATRE PAINTING #2: I dreamt again about sneaking into the opera theatre in Zurich. This time, I had to jump over many fences, each row of seats was a fence. Then I had to sit on a balloon that burst when I sat on it and the popcorn in my hand went everywhere on the floor. All the posh people around me starred as they were sipping champagne, 2026 oil on linen
114 x 162 x 3.5 cm
#41907
$8,700
Babette Robertson
I pulled out the vials of paints further and behind them were all these powders. They were the most beautiful and the most alluring but I knew I couldn't use them because my mask didn't filter ammonia and these powders had ammonia in them, 2026 water-based pigment and oil on linen
200 x 300 x 4.5 cm Dyptich
#41908
$25,000
Pt. 1 I was walking along a suburban footpath when I stumbled upon a woman. She was very skinny and had long grey hair. She was kneeling down singing the most beautiful Italian opera, 2026
water-based pigment and oil on linen
41 x 33 x 3.5 cm
#41909
$2,300
Babette Robertson
Pt. 2 She didn't stop singing when I arrived. She was in a meditation state. Then she bent down, very close to the ground. There was a tiny rectangle of grass between the concrete. She pulled out a tiny shovel and watering can and began digging it up, 2026 water-based pigment and oil on linen
41 x 33 x 3.5 cm
#41910
$2,300
Robertson
Pt.3 She was still singing. Then I realised it was a grave - 5cm x 6cm. Inside, a tiny dead bird. She took the bird out of the grave and held it in her palm , 2026
water-based pigment and oil on linen
41 x 33 x 3.5 cm
#41911
$2,300
Robertson
Pt.4 She continued to sing. At this point she acknowledged my presence. I could tell she was showing me the bird. Eventually she put the bird back in the grave and kept singing, 2026
water-based pigment and oil on linen
41 x 33 x 3.5 cm
#41912
$2,300