A History of Byron Bay

By Ian Trafford Walker

This book describes the author's painting titled The History of Byron Bay, which he painted in 1988 for Australias bicentennial year on the water reservoir above the town of Byron Bay, Northern New South Wales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Mar 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781482865332

Ian Trafford Walker

In 1974, at the age of twenty-one, Walker held his second one-man show in Clarence Street, Sydney, where many of the large canvasses shown in this book were displayed. For this show, he hired the entire ground floor space of a modern office building. All the smaller works sold and only one of the fourteen larger canvasses. At the end of the show, after paying for the opening night, Walker owed the company five dollars. Of his early works, the artist writes: “I was as free as a bird. I had my house and could catch a fish and eat it too. I knew I had to express this bedazzlement of being as it was brimming over like a full-moon tide.”

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Copyright © 2017 Ian Trafford Walker. All rights reserved.

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978-1-4828-6533-2 (e)

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A History of Byron Bay

As painted on the water reservoir in Paterson Street above the town.

With great respect a heart felt thanks to the people of Byron Bay who held their breath while I painted.

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