Painting
Underwater at the Paddle Out
Acrylic on canvas
110cm x 170cm
SOLD
Contemporary portrait
Hand etched in print ready ply.
120cm x 120cm unframed
SOLD
25 piece wall installation.
Wood carved drawings on ply.
Each disc is 41cm x 41cm
15 discs Available
Custom carved Alaia surfboard
180cm x 42cm
Private Collection - Jenkings
Fine etched traditional alaia surfboard
180cm x 42cm
Private Collection - Jenkings
Paddle out installation
Created from board shaped cuttlefish and clay.
Hand cast, fired glass, steel and east coast pumice stone.
10cm - 20cm
Available
As individual pieces or create your own group.
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Paddle, paddle my brother to another place Cool and green, free of body Light as air to new dimensions We wish you well Splash, splash my brother We shout your name Joy and sadness intertwined Fly, fly my brother As your light fills the sky Our hearts lift you beyond this place Our spirits with you, higher and higher Swim, swim my brother You, water and sky are one Love, love my brother Tears fill an ocean where we ride the waves A sacred place One, one my brother One with God and earth You play joyfully Jo St Baker.
Hand etched drawing on fine finished tradition Alaia surfboard.
Custom carved commissioned artwork
6ft 6 Alaia
Private Collection - U.S
Fine etched carving in wood
90cm x 30cm unframed
Private Collection - Queensland
Acrylic on Canvas
80cm x 140cm
SOLD
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The most famous arts wave in the world was created between 1829 and 1833 by Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese woodblock carver and printmaker. Noosa to Hokusai fuses contemporary subject, being Noosa Beach and headland in a very tradition Baroque style painting presenting a contemporary take on local subject.
I like to paint the world around me in ways that inspire and inform. Morphing woodcut and painting, my two main mediums.
From the paddle out circular formation installation.
Hand cast, fired glass, steel and east coast pumice stone.
14cm x 5.5cm x 4.5cm
Private Collection
Paddle out installation.
Created from board shaped cuttlefish and clay.
Hand cast, fired glass, steel and east coast pumice stone.
14cm - 30cm
Available
As individual pieces or create your own group.
Norries Headland
Acrylic on canvas
101.5cm x 152.5cm
Available
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This work is a response to a vividly wild and very surreal dream that I had earlier this year. I was at the southern beach of Norries Headland, south of Cabarita in northern New South Wales, Australia. It is a home type town for my family and I, a place where we visit often and feel very connected to both land and sea.
Like a giant phoenix from the water a wave formed that carried me up above a very fast moving earth. Quietly beneath under the veil of water my ancestors occupied the liminal space between land and sea, between the earth and the heavens.
These references inform my work constantly.
Sculpture
Bamboo, wire, expandable foam, sculpted, sealant and sand.
110cm x 120cm x 100cm
Collection Brisbane
25 piece wall installation.
Wood carved drawings on ply.
Each disc is 41cm x 41cm
20 discs Available
Sculpture bamboo board
Wall mounted or freestanding
310cm x 60cm x 30cm
Private Collection _ Queensland
Woodcut
The First Wave with industrial steel frame
128cm x 248cm
Available
From the paddle out circular formation installation
Hand cast, fired glass, steel and east coast pumice stone
13cm x 5.5cm x 4.5cm
Private Collection
Sculpture bamboo board
Wall mounted or freestanding
280cm x 600cm x 30cm
Private Collection
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Another bamboo board en titled ‘Breathe’
280cm 60cm x 30cm is now available
Commissions on request
Etched drawing on timber
40cm x 40cm unframed
Private Collection
From the paddle out circular formation installation
Hand cast, fired glass, steel and east coast pumice stone
14cm x 5.5cm x 4.5cm
Available
59.4cm x 42cm
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Baroque philosophies fuse with contemporary subject in this exhibition. The First Wave pushes conceptual boundaries of culture and spirituality to explore tribalism, brotherhood and ceremony.
St Baker’s innate engagement with form and nature define her wood-carved fine art, painting, sculpture, poetry and video as she deftly blends the sensuous vitality and drama of cultural ages and histories all around a contemporary coastline.
Tattoo & Turtle
Commission
Private Collection - Brisbane Queensland
Sculpture
Bamboo, wire, expandable foam, sculpted, sealant and sand
300cm x 90cm x 90cm
Available
Line and dot etched wood
Industrial steel frame and rivets
128cm x 248cm
Private Collection New Zealand
Sculpture
Bamboo, wire, expandable foam, sculpted, sealant and sand
120cm x 100cm x 110cm
Collection Queensland
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Image from The First Wave Exhibition at the Hub, Caboolture Regional Gallery, Queensland, 2018.
Tiny Phantom…Poem…Jo St Baker
Open hands lift
As you fall through my fingers
I hold your history, a lifetime, a land, a world
Unified
Rocks and glaciers, oceans and streams
Life from the sea, life from the land
I hold in my hand
Ages past and present together
Ancestors singing with tiny voices,
No borders, no prejudice, no names
Just one
Grain of sand
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