Gather The Hands by Kerry Sandhu Art in Darwin City
Gather The Hands
While I was painting this indigenous woman, the Xavier Rudd song of the same name came on my playlist and straight away it just resonated with me with some of the lyrics being:
“…Flawlessness, contagious, compassionate, engagement
In these hands I belong, in these hands you belong
Foolish, segregation, scars deep beneath the skin
Of the black man and the white man and everyone in between
Forever sacred was the feminine, right down to the final hour
When every baby to be taken was to be poisoned to be soured
Bodies turning in their graves and spirits waiting to go home
Disconnected from their holy place when the museum stole their bones
Cry freedom, still bleeding, still waiting for a reason
Throw these arms around the world, throw these arms around the world
Through the eye of a needle we tried to move the stone
So heavy from its history of shame and blood and bone
Gather the hands to move the stone
Gather the hands to move the stone
Sing it up to the Heavens
Let it rain down on us all…”
16" x 20"
41cm x 51cm
This work is painted on a gallery wrapped canvas and has been sealed with varnish, comes ready to hang and with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Kerry is an emerging, self-taught acrylic artist born and living all of her life in Perth, Western Australia, until her move to Darwin in the Northern Territory in January 2020.
She is inspired by nature, spirit, life, music and lyrics and just like her music tastes, her artistic style, techniques and themes are very eclectic.
Kerry's ‘inspired art from the heart’ covers a variety of themes which encapsulates her raw uniqueness and spiritual energy as she creates vibrant paintings of the beauty found in the details of her life.
Kerry has a love of painting and creating and wants to share this with others to help inspire, heal, motivate or whatever emotion her paintings evoke, allowing the viewer to experience their own connection with the artwork.
After years of searching for that one passion to ignite her soul and give her an outlet from her everyday life, Kerry discovered acrylic painting, and she has never looked back! She also realised from her own life experiences, that many other people have been, or are in a similar circumstances and don't know where to start to find theirs.
So, after 7 years of following this passion of creativity and exploring all that comes with it, (the good, the bad, the ugly and the amazing), and now living this daily within her art business, Kerry has created her very first ‘Pure Imagination’ Painting Funshop, so you too can FREE YOUR MIND and find your unique voice!
Kerry's Pure Imagination Painting Funshops are designed to get the participants to * Look * Listen * Feel * Imagine * and unleash their creative voice in a new and exciting way by painting from their heart and imagination, using both formal and unique techniques. This will help to liberate the soul though fun, excitement, curiosity and wonder, taking you back to childhood when you did things just for fun, with no pressure or guilt!
The more creative we are, and the more beauty that we produce, we guarantee liberty, personal freedom, empowerment, and prosperity in our lives.
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Reflections
Raise Hell
Tonights The Night
This Is Me
Psychosonic Cindy
I Am Woman
Roar
Malaika
Gather The Hands
Let Me Be
True Colours
A Change is Gonna Come
Angels Brought Me Here
Aurora
Autumn Rain
Beds Are Burning
Bliss
Brooklyn Roads
Brothers in Arms
Butterfly
Colossal
Come Join The Murder
Cottesloe Dreaming
Down Under
Feeling Good Its a New Dawn Its a New Day Its a New Life
Flower of Gratitude
For The Fallen
Free Bird
Go West
High Voltage
I Am a River
I Am Woman
I Sat By The Ocean
I Should Be So Lucky
I Was Only 19
Im Born Again
Its a Kind of Magic
Kimberley Calling
Let Me Be
Lifes Midnight
London Still
Malaika
Moon River
Morning Has Broken
My Island Home
Never Gonna Give You Up
Nothing Else Matters
Ocean
Original Sin
Psychosonic Cindy
Pure Shores
Raise Hell
Reflection of a Icon
Ride The Wave
Roar
Run To The Water
Rustic Banksia
Rustic Bottle Brush
Rustic Flowering Gum
Rustic Grass Tree
Rustic Kangaroo Paw
Rustic Wattle
Setting Sun
Seven Seas of Rhye
Shades of Cool
Shine Like it Does
Slice of Heaven
Soul Revival
Surfin Bird
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Battle of Long Tan
The Dolphins Cry
The Sound of Silence
The Spirit of the Land
This is it Your Soul
Three Little Birds Faith
Tranquility
True Colours
Uprising
Welcome To My Truth
Where Eagles Have Been
Wine Time in the Ferguson
Wipe Out
This Is Me
Bootylicious
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All About That Bass
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Tonights The Night
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Nina
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