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Lyn Shakespeare

July 30 2008

LYN Shakespeare is known to many friends and fans as Doll – for historic blow-up alter ego cabaret reasons – yet few know her as a painter. This week an exhibition of 35 works opens in Waterloo (Wednesday, July 31)and will reveal another side of the ebullient singer-dancer-actress-cabaret maven.

Shakespeare has been painting for ten years and this is her third solo show. “I was hung in the Salon des Refuses with my first landscape,” she says. “But I didn’t start out wanting to paint. At school I’d throw plasticene at the blackboard during art class.”

That all changed when she began to dabble during “rest” periods from the acting life and started art classes. That led to three months in Rome...

”It became an extraordinary urge and Rome in 2001 made all the difference,” says Shakespeare. “I’ve been back a few times since and there are a couple in the show from those trips.”

Her main interest is Australian landscape, country- and still life, however, and these subjects form the body of her work. “I love my cows,” she says. “I suppose you could call me Still life with Cow! And the one I’ve called ‘580 George Street’ doesn’t have a lot to do with the city. It was a pile of oil drums at an old Ampol place and one of them had that address stenciled on it.”

Lyn Shakespeare

The show, at what she describes as “a big old furniture warehouse” has taken up a lot of time over the past few months but won’t necessarily keep her away from the stage.

“When I first got passionate about painting I thought – this is it, but then I got really busy. And that’s the way it seems to go. I suppose once a hoofer always a hoofer!”

Recent Paintings by Lyn Shakespeare Residence Fine Furniture, Unit 14, 888 Bourke Street, Waterloo; phone 02 8307 0522; July 31-August 22, 2008.

 

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