RAE, Jude, 1956-
Beirut, July 2006 (#246) (Painting)
Compelled to begin this contemporary history
painting when war broke out in the Middle
East in July 2006, Jude Rae also used this
painting’s scale as an opportunity to explore a
new, more liquid, painting technique. Israel
was retaliating against a Hezbollah missile
attack on border settlements by launching air
strikes and artillery attacks on Lebanon,
extensively damaging infrastructure and killing
over a thousand civilians, and wounding many
more. Jude Rae had arrived in France to take
up the Moya Dyring Memorial Fellowship at
the Cité Internationale des Artes directly from
Dunedin where she had been painting large
architectural interiors as the artist-in-residence
there. She was planning to make similar
studies in Paris, but coverage of the July war in
the French media was extensive, and, absorbed
by the imagery, she began to make drawings
and watercolours of the conflict from the
internet coverage.
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