Fiona Smith Wild Thing, King Parrot on Tiffany Lamp
Artwork Details
2024
Oil on canvas framed
60 x 50cm
About The Artwork
A friendly King Parrot has perched on a Tiffany lamp. Behind him is wallpaper based on a design by Lewis Foreman Day (1887). The name of the work comes from a line by Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's: You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.
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Fiona Smith
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Fiona Smith paints birds. She was raised on the fringes of a national park in Sydney, where the wildlife was far more plentiful than willing human playmates. With no urban playgrounds nearby, her childhood centred around forging friendships with the feathered and furred creatures that strayed onto her parents’ property, set on McCarrs Creek in Sydney’s Northern Beach...