John Baird 'Still Life' the field revisited Coates sketches a figure who

Coates sketches a figure who reaches beyond the borders of the frame – she is dynamic and powerful in a way Coates’s other figures were not

grimaces with scorn toward a shocked Robin

'Ovahimba Cattle Herder

indulging us in the possibility of a reality more magical and mysterious than it appears

John Baird 'Still Life' the field revisited Coates sketches a figure whoThis intimate bronze maquette by Mornington Peninsula artist John Baird captures four decades of looking, making and refining in a sculpture that feels both assured and quietly playful. A finalist in the 2025 McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery Maquette: Sculpture Award for another bronze Still Life, Baird brings to this work the same considered sense of composition that defines his paintings his characteristic intimate picture plane here unfolding