Art

85cm x 115cm x 5cm - Limited Edition Print. 
Framed numbers 1-25.
Personally Signed and Numbered. 
Created: Casuarina Beach, New South Wales Australia

‘Above’ is a beautifully framed, artist signed and numbered, limited edition print created especially for you and Tropicsurf by Australian New Zealand based artist, Jo St Baker.

Printed on acid free heavy weight cotton rag fine art paper using archival pigment based inks. Each print is mounted on conservation matting under glass and framed in chic imported white and light timber Oslo box moulding.

In her work St Baker celebrates the spiritual aspects of moments shared by lovers of the ocean. ‘Above’ embraces light, movement and the pure joy of being under water. She encapsulates elements of coastal culture, camaraderie, respect, loyalty and dignity in each of her varied mediums.

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w204cm x 38cm x 4cm-  Fine-Etched, Hand-Crafted Traditional Surfboard Alaia
Original - One of One

Created especially for Tropicsurf's Gallery, Jo St Baker offers original and bespoke fine etched traditional surfboard Alaia. Each work of art is unique in its story and making.

Hand-selected beautifully finished blanks are transformed to fine art after hours of surface preparation and design planning. Woodblock printmaking led to Jo St Baker's deep emergence in carving and fine line and dot drawing, a technique she has developed throughout her fine art career.

Each piece is a labour of love and skill. Each dot, the size of a grain of sand, is withdrawn from the timber surface to let in light. Akin to an ultrasound, mark by mark she reveals a subsurface. A world she calls wood + water + skin. 

Each board takes months to create. Each dot in relation to the next being vitally important.  

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42cm x 17cm x 17cm - Origina Bronze Figure and Hebel Base by Jo St Baker
Only 1 ever created

2017 winner of The Queensland Regional Art Awards - TheSandmen, a 7 piece sculpture of bamboo, resin and sand was the origin of this series.

2020 always inspired by the anthropomorphic qualities of shapes and form in Nature, this piece is a playful figurative adaptation of a dribble sand sculpture like the ones that kids make. Hand carved in wax and solidified in bronze.

Translating the Sandman from organic materials to bronze challenged my skill to retain the natural aspects and sentiment.

Very relaxed he stands on a ball of small lapping waves captured in gentle motion. I use sand a lot in my sculptures. The beach, or sand, to me is a universal, nongender, non race, non religious but purely spiritual natural platform and example of how the world could exist and be. No myths only truth.

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Tiny Phantom (Sand)
Open hands lift and 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 landI hold in my hand
You are the bridge to
Ancestors singing with tiny voices
Ages past and present together
No borders, no prejudice, no names
Just one
Grain of sand
JSB

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