August 26, 2024 • 25 mins
In this episode, we meet Rebecca Eglinton, an emerging artist whose journey started in the Barossa. Rebecca shares her experiences growing up in the region, her early love for art, and her inspirations. From her school days to her involvement with Tutti Arts and the 100 Barossa Artists Exhibition, Rebecca’s story is one of passion and creativity.
Listen as Rebecca talks about her favourite mediums, her love for watercolours, and the personal stories behind her beautiful paintings. Discover how the Barossa landscape and her imagination fuel her artwork, and learn about her upcoming projects, including her contributions to the Inside Out project and her enchanting world of dragons, horses, and whimsical landscapes.
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Welcome to the Barossa Podcast, a 100 Barossa Artist Project,
created by Kirsty Kingsley, Renee de Saxe and myself, Rebecca Reynolds.
We would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of our region,
the Ndjeri, Perimank and Kaurna peoples, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.
They are the custodians of many millennia of stories.
(00:21):
You can't know a place until you know its stories, all of them,
the good, the sad, the awkward and the hilarious ones.
The ones told by people from all walks of life who feel a connection to this
place that we call today Barossa.
The Barossa is a region with a creative story to tell.
100 Barossa Artists was initiated in 2020 to shine a light on arts and creativity
(00:43):
to make visible the breadth of our creative community.
So many exciting things have happened since then. There are new galleries,
new artist studios, emerging artists and events.
This project has been made possible by the generous support of Country Arts
SA, Foundation Barossa and the Peter Lehman Arts and Education Trust.
Hello everyone and welcome to season three, episode five of the Barossa podcast.
(01:08):
My name is Rebecca Reynolds and I'm sitting here today in the beautiful studio of Rebecca Eggington.
Oh hello. Hello Rebecca in Euripta and we are drinking King tea today.
Yes, I'm French Earl Grey.
French Earl Grey tea. Thank you. It's actually quite delicious.
Rebecca, thank you so much for having me here. Rebecca's an artist and has been
(01:30):
really active across a couple of different mediums. And I first met Rebecca
when she took part in the 100 Grosser Artists Exhibition.
And I followed her sort of art story through her involvement with 2D Arts and
most recently with the Brussels.
And I'm so happy to have the opportunity to talk to you about your art and your
(01:51):
journey to becoming an artist. Oh, I'm happy to.
So, Rebecca, tell me a little bit about yourself. Did you grow up in the Barossa?
Oh, yes, I did. My whole life, actually. Yeah? Yeah.
Did you go to which primary school did you go to? Oh, I went to Nundah Primary School.
Did you? Yeah. Oh, cool. I met this really awesome teacher there.
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Yeah. Who I'm still friends with today.
Cool. Yeah. Yeah, and then so did you go to Newry High after that?
Oh, yes, I did. Yep, went to Newry High.
Yeah. Met a lot of my friends there. Yes. I'm actually now an artist now.
Yeah, oh, that's really cool.
Was it at high school that you started really liking art or has art been something
that's always been important to you?
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Did you draw a lot when you were little? Oh, of course I did. Yeah.
Yeah, so I really loved art when I was in primary school. but I kind of got
more into it when I was in high school.
Yes. Yeah. What did you like the most? Was it ceramics or was it painting or was it drawing?
It was more drawing and painting. Yes. Yeah. And I did have a bit of fun with ceramics. Yeah.
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Ceramics are actually very fun. Yeah.
And was there something that you used to like to draw?
You know, like, so I look back at one of my kids and they just drew over and
over and over some, I guess they were anime or cartoon characters.
Was there something that you thought a lot of when you were young?
Yeah, for me it would have to be anime characters as well. Oh,
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really? Yeah, and I also did a lot of dragons.
Yes. A lot of horses as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pegasus.
Pegasus, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And so did you have a favourite anime series that you used to watch?
I used to watch Atom Boy when I was very young. It tells you about my age more than anything else.
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I remember there was Pokemon, obviously.
Yeah, I was a bit of a fan of Pokemon as well, actually.
Yes, and what was the list? Was it Pikachu? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah,
that was my favourite one.
Back to when you were at school, so you did lots of drawing,
a little bit of ceramics, a bit of painting.
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And then towards the end of school, did you do art sort of towards the end?
And how did you manage to continue with art?
Well, when I was in year 12, one of my teachers, back when I was in the disability
unit, he decided that I was going to go to this place known as Tuti Arts.
(04:32):
Yes. And back then I was all like, what? What is this? yeah yeah
but yeah i was also i
also went to 2d arts with two of
my other classmates as well yes so that was joey yes so yeah joey roberts yeah
and caleb yes caleb scott yeah yeah who was the 2d coordinator back then that
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was so that was ali oh okay and so did you used to go over to Tanunda?
Is that when? Oh, no, it was actually in Noori at first. Yes.
It was in that Catholic church.
Oh, yeah. I can't remember the name of it. Yeah, I think there's only one Catholic
church. Yeah. Yeah, and then it moved to Tanunda after that.
Yes, it did, yeah. Oh, cool.
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So then you were sort of with Tuti for a while and did you study anywhere else?
I did study at Laid Tafe. Yes.
Yeah, I got accepted for a scholarship. Oh, fantastic. A foundation barossa. Fantastic.
So that helped me get into TAFE. Yes. Yeah.
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Yeah, so the first, so the course I went to was, it was Bachelor of Visual Arts. Yes.
Which I really enjoyed it, but then eventually I ended up having some difficulties with it.
Yes. Like I just really struggled.
With the theory side, but I was also struggling with the system of TAFE. Yes. Yes.
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So then, so the following year, which was 2021.
2020 must have been a fairly hard year. Oh, yes. It was. Anyway.
Yeah. Well, you had COVID.
Yeah. And I guess, you know, that 2020 year, I guess you would have had to do
a lot of just study online.
Yeah. Promotely as well, which I actually think is really quite hard.
(06:25):
Oh, yeah. Particularly with visual arts. when you know like,
there's a real benefit to being, you know, in the church.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I know. I had to live over with my sister just to do it as
well. Yeah. And does your sister live in?
Back then she used to live in Elizabeth, but now she's Everston Gardens. Okay. Cool. Cool.
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And so then you sort of changed a little bit from the bachelor to the?
I went into Cert IV. IV. Yeah.
Great. great and yeah I was enjoying it
but not as much as Bachelor of the Arts because
I felt like in Bachelor you got to learn
much more yes yeah but again I
did struggle yeah yeah so I
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mean I think that's amazing though and I think that's amazing that you managed
to do that at all in 2020 so well done oh thanks and did you get to do lots
of different kinds of art or did you like like different kind of art styles
and techniques and things in that course? Oh, yeah.
So with Cert IV, I got to have a programme on ceramics, printmaking.
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And I guess like some watercolours and relics. Did you do oil painting as well?
Oh, no, I didn't do that. Yes.
And what would you say is your favourite medium? What do you love to work in? I love watercolour.
It's been a huge love of mine since I was a wee little girl.
Yeah, it all started off when my mum, she bought me this massive watercolour
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palette and back then I believed that I had every single colour in the world.
So I was always painting with it.
That's beautiful actually. So yeah, my love for watercolour really continued
after that. Yes, absolutely.
And are you still doing watercolours today? Oh, of course I am.
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What do you like? So, and I'm not a very, I'm not merely as good an artist as
you, but like what sort of, what do you like about watercolours?
I think I just love how it just, just make one brush stroke.
It just feels like I'm just flowing with the way, how the brush is.
Yeah, because the thing that I love about watercolours is like you,
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that real flow that you get. Yeah, and just the subtlety of the colour and just that it feels so soft.
Oh, yes. Yeah.
Cool. And so just looking around the room here for the listeners at home,
you've got a couple of really quite cool paintings.
Some I can see are, you know, there's a couple of really beautiful framed ones as well.
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Can you tell me about, so I'm looking at one that is a dragon, which is like amazing.
Thing I'm like really very taken with it and there's there's a couple of others
that have like a have the moon in them and the sky quite a number of them have the moon oh yes,
which is your favorite painting in here oh that's quite hard I know I'm asking
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you too many hard questions usually I find my favorite ones are usually the ones that,
my most recent we may yes yeah and where do you get your inspiration.
So do you because you obviously are in the studio a couple of days a week yeah
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so do you sort of get your inspiration from nature around you or do you does
it just you know the mood takes you Do you paint or?
Well, it's actually quite all of those. Yeah.
So a lot of my art style comes from my imagination most of the time.
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Otherwise, I am very inspired by the landscape around here. Yes.
In the Barossa. Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely. And clearly you're also very inspired by the moon and those images.
Oh, yeah. Images. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
And it's just been the full moon, so probably you've been out looking at the
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full moon for a couple of nights as well, haven't you?
Oh, even one night I saw the moon so huge and golden, right, when it was rising.
Yes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I love seeing the moon when it's like that. Yeah, absolutely.
You know, so a large part of your inspiration comes from the landscape and your
imagination. Have you got any other, are there any other artists that you like
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to, that inspire you or that you like to look at their work?
Well, that's always been a tricky question for me because I've always found
it quite difficult to have like just the one specific artist.
Yeah. I've always...
Like artworks from a whole different, like so many different artists. Yes.
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But at the moment I've been getting really inspired by animators. Yes, yes.
Yeah, so one of them I've actually been inspired by for a few years now.
That would be Osamu Tezuka. Yes. Okay. Yeah.
Is that who did Adam Boy? Yes. Okay. Great. It's quite huge in Japan. Massive. Yeah.
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Yeah, and such beautiful illustrations. Oh, yes. And the expressions on.
So do you like Studio Ghibli as well? Oh, absolutely love them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you have, so my favourite Studio Ghibli, well, I have two favourite Studio
Ghibli movies. The first one would be Toto.
I love Toto.
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But the other one would be probably Spirited Away. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, everybody loves Totoro, but it's just that beautiful,
like the illustrations are obviously beautiful, but the sincerity of the story,
like it's just so simple and pure.
I love that. Yeah.
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I find it hard to pick a favourite one because they're all just so good.
Yeah, they are. Yeah. Amazing.
There's a cool little, there's a studio, I believe, I believe,
I suppose it's a museum in Tokyo, sort of in the suburbs of Tokyo.
And it's all pretty cool. But my favourite room, and it's for very,
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very small children, but it's like a soft Totoro bus.
Oh, yeah. And so all the little kids were like, they could climb in.
And so it's like made of soft, you know, like a plush toy or whatever. Oh, that's so much fun.
But they were all very, very little. So I didn't feel like I could join in.
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But I did observe that, like, with delight, actually. It was gorgeous. So one day. Yeah. Yeah.
Music.
Talked a little bit about your sort of artistic inspirations and,
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as I said, you've got a whole heap of beautiful artwork around,
a couple that look like you're in the middle of. Yeah.
Some that are finished. And we're currently in July 2024 and Sala is just around the corner. Oh, yeah.
You've got an exhibition coming up for Sala? I do, actually.
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So I've got an art exhibition with 2T Arts.
Yes. So that exhibition is called Unleash.
And so that also correlates to the Inside Out project, which I'm also a part of. Yes.
Where we've been like designing the front area of the house.
Oh, of 2D Arts. Yeah. So let's just take a step back because we've talked about 2D Arts a little bit.
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Yeah. Can you tell me a little bit about 2D Arts?
So it's an organisation that runs sort of arts programs for all sorts of like
very accessible arts programs and they have in the last few years taken over
or they have leased the, is it the House of Hope?
Yes, it is. In Neerupur and so is this the Inside Out project?
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So that's been all renovated at the moment, is it? Yes, it is. Yeah.
So we've been designing some sculptures to sit on the outside,
Oh, wow. Yeah. And sculptures are using what kind of materials?
So we've been doing like laser cut stills. Yes.
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That's been like powder coated. Yeah. So the designs come from like drawings
by 3D artists. Yes. Oh, fantastic.
Oh, wow. And so have you contributed to some of those designs? I have. Have you? Oh.
And so will that be, so that's the Inside Out project.
And when will that be completed? Will that be completed in time for Sala or
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that's a little bit further down the track?
It will be a little further down the track, but we will definitely have those
sculptures ready by then.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that's a project sort of maybe for later in the
year, but Sala is called Unleashed.
Yes. And what have you done for that? What piece have you done or pieces? Yeah.
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Well, I've done this watercolour painting.
Of like a castle and a lake. There's like all these hills around it. Awesome.
And a small girl looking at the castle, dreaming.
And we were talking before about the story behind, you know,
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some of the paintings and how interesting that is.
Yeah. And so can you tell me the story behind that painting?
Well, the original inspiration of it, when I couldn't stop, Feeling the paper.
I do love watercolor paper too. Oh, yes.
So originally it was inspired by like an earlier artwork I did back in high school.
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Well, that was especially the classroom part of it. Yes. Yeah.
It was also inspired by a Studio Ghibli film, Lakita. Yes.
About, like, how, you know, how they have, like, cars within the sky.
Yeah. There's cars within the lake.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, like, some of the,
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just that beautiful free imagining as well.
You know, like, what the world or what your, you know, the world around you
could look like. I think that's beautiful. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just trying to see now if I can see that one here.
That's currently our 2D apps. I'm sorry.
You'll get to see the opening on the 3rd. So it's the 3rd of August, the opening?
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Excellent. And then that will be open for most set days over August, will it?
Yes. So Mondays and Wednesdays? Yes. Yeah. From 9 to 3?
Cool, cool, cool. And will you be in there on those days as well?
Or you've got a bit of a schedule for when you're in there?
Well, I'll only be there on Wednesdays. Yes.
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So, yeah, I'll probably be working on like my own thing.
Yes. But in the second half of the day, I'm normally working on the Inside Out project.
Oh, fabulous. Yes. Fabulous. Okay, cool. Oh, well, that's something to look
forward to. Yeah. I'm definitely coming to have a look at that. Excellent.
So, I am, and I'm probably going to have to take a photo of this,
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but Rebecca has this beautiful dragon painting that is sitting behind her can
you tell me where you exhibited that and you have quite a lot of paintings that
have dragons and horses and things is that because you know you have a you imagine
a world with dragons I always do.
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But also I also have a bit of a story with dragons as well like from when I was a very young girl.
Like whenever I used to look out to the hills, I always used to believe that
there were actually dragons sleeping.
Interesting. Yeah. Because this is not necessarily my area of expertise,
but I believe there is the legend of the giant. And it's a kind of legend.
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And that's where the Barossa rangers came from, all the Mount Lofty rangers.
And it's the giant. And Eurypter, where we are now, is the net country of the giant.
Yeah. But you can, yeah, I can completely see how you, as a,
you know, you could see that. It's there for sure. Yeah.
And you have quite a lot of water in your paintings as well.
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Yes, I've always felt very attracted to water. Yeah. Yeah.
Like water has always been like something like a healing for me.
Yeah. I completely understand.
And so is there, you know, like your interest in horses, is that something similar to the dragon?
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Not that you saw the horses in the hills, but does the horses mean something to you as well?
Well, like, again, when I was little, I went to one of my great uncle's farm.
And I remember meeting his horse, who was named Princess.
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And yeah, and I just thought that she was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
And then ever since then, I just had this huge love for horses.
But I also feel like that it also represents my family as well.
Like my grandparents, they loved horses and my great-grandparents had horses.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And do your family still live in the Barossa?
Yes, they do. Yes, they do? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and there's not so many horses here. Yeah, no, sad.
That does happen. I do think princess is a good name for a horse.
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Yeah. Yeah. Very beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And so where to from here with your art, Rebecca, do you have sort of any plans
to, I know 2D has a workshop, I suppose, in, is it Brighton?
Like that's sort of their headquarters.
Do you have any plans to do some work down there or?
Not really so much. But I do plan on building up my own little business. Yes. Yeah.
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Yeah. So one thing to achieve is putting my artworks onto products. Great.
And then sell them across the roster. Yeah. Absolutely. And have you got any examples?
Oh, I think you've made some. Yeah, I've made some. Yeah. Yeah.
Would you like to have a look? I would like to have a look. Thank you.
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Oh, wow. Actually, that's beautiful.
So these are all Rebecca Eglinton art cards. And so where do you have them?
Oh, they're gorgeous. There's a whole heap of sort of quite whimsical landscapes,
aren't they? They're beautiful.
And do you have them for sale anywhere? Yes, I do.
I currently have them at the Barossa Regional Art Gallery. Yes.
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And also at Barossa Sister. sister oh great i'm
hoping soon i'll have them in the angustin brossa
collective yes yeah and also
at the tananda visitors center oh fabulous i
really like this one and maybe i can
take a couple of photos maybe we can pop these on there
as well of course yeah but i really
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love the like the the horse in the landscape it's
like really gorgeous i like really love these
two with the sort of the horse in the landscape like you could
you could really just have that as a landscape but that
horse just makes it like it's a little bit musical it almost
looks like it could be you know like the horse is you
looking at yeah i don't know if that's they're gorgeous
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all right well 100 let's look out for those and i'll take some photos of those
as well that's beautiful the water is beautiful they say yeah i can see some
really clear themes in your work around horses of water and yeah they're lovely
well done oh thank you yeah.
So rebecca i've asked everybody in
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this series a question about the brossa and you know like you have such a a
deep connection with the brossa as you know you've been here your whole life
what does that what does the brossa mean to you well the brossa to me it's always
been my phone like Like I've lived here for my whole life, really.
But I've always loved looking at the landscapes.
(23:34):
Oh, and then sometimes some rainbows.
Like even from a young age, it even gave me my imagination. Yes.
Just like thinking about those dragons sleeping.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And, you know, like I think it's really interesting
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talking to you about, you know, the landscape because I grew up in the Barossa as well.
So we've seen, you know, those landscapes that you've seen over and over and over again.
And then what's so interesting is that when you think about,
it's almost like your interpretation or, you know, like a slightly different
way of thinking about the landscape.
Yeah. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, look, that's really lovely. And I've so enjoyed talking to you this morning, Rebecca.
Thank you so much. I have too. Thank you.
Music.
Welcome to the Barossa Podcast, a 100 Barossa Artist Project,
created by Kirsty Kingsley, Renee de Saxe and myself, Rebecca Reynolds.
We would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of our region,
the Ndjeri, Perimank and Kaurna peoples, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.
They are the custodians of many millennia of stories.
(00:21):
You can't know a place until you know its stories, all of them,
the good, the sad, the awkward and the hilarious ones.
The ones told by people from all walks of life who feel a connection to this
place that we call today Barossa.
The Barossa is a region with a creative story to tell.
100 Barossa Artists was initiated in 2020 to shine a light on arts and creativity
(00:43):
to make visible the breadth of our creative community.
So many exciting things have happened since then. There are new galleries,
new artist studios, emerging artists and events.
This project has been made possible by the generous support of Country Arts
SA, Foundation Barossa and the Peter Lehman Arts and Education Trust.
Hello everyone and welcome to season three, episode five of the Barossa podcast.
(01:08):
My name is Rebecca Reynolds and I'm sitting here today in the beautiful studio of Rebecca Eggington.
Oh hello. Hello Rebecca in Euripta and we are drinking King tea today.
Yes, I'm French Earl Grey.
French Earl Grey tea. Thank you. It's actually quite delicious.
Rebecca, thank you so much for having me here. Rebecca's an artist and has been
(01:30):
really active across a couple of different mediums. And I first met Rebecca
when she took part in the 100 Grosser Artists Exhibition.
And I followed her sort of art story through her involvement with 2D Arts and
most recently with the Brussels.
And I'm so happy to have the opportunity to talk to you about your art and your
(01:51):
journey to becoming an artist. Oh, I'm happy to.
So, Rebecca, tell me a little bit about yourself. Did you grow up in the Barossa?
Oh, yes, I did. My whole life, actually. Yeah? Yeah.
Did you go to which primary school did you go to? Oh, I went to Nundah Primary School.
Did you? Yeah. Oh, cool. I met this really awesome teacher there.
(02:12):
Yeah. Who I'm still friends with today.
Cool. Yeah. Yeah, and then so did you go to Newry High after that?
Oh, yes, I did. Yep, went to Newry High.
Yeah. Met a lot of my friends there. Yes. I'm actually now an artist now.
Yeah, oh, that's really cool.
Was it at high school that you started really liking art or has art been something
that's always been important to you?
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Did you draw a lot when you were little? Oh, of course I did. Yeah.
Yeah, so I really loved art when I was in primary school. but I kind of got
more into it when I was in high school.
Yes. Yeah. What did you like the most? Was it ceramics or was it painting or was it drawing?
It was more drawing and painting. Yes. Yeah. And I did have a bit of fun with ceramics. Yeah.
(03:00):
Ceramics are actually very fun. Yeah.
And was there something that you used to like to draw?
You know, like, so I look back at one of my kids and they just drew over and
over and over some, I guess they were anime or cartoon characters.
Was there something that you thought a lot of when you were young?
Yeah, for me it would have to be anime characters as well. Oh,
(03:23):
really? Yeah, and I also did a lot of dragons.
Yes. A lot of horses as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pegasus.
Pegasus, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And so did you have a favourite anime series that you used to watch?
I used to watch Atom Boy when I was very young. It tells you about my age more than anything else.
(03:47):
I remember there was Pokemon, obviously.
Yeah, I was a bit of a fan of Pokemon as well, actually.
Yes, and what was the list? Was it Pikachu? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah,
that was my favourite one.
Back to when you were at school, so you did lots of drawing,
a little bit of ceramics, a bit of painting.
(04:09):
And then towards the end of school, did you do art sort of towards the end?
And how did you manage to continue with art?
Well, when I was in year 12, one of my teachers, back when I was in the disability
unit, he decided that I was going to go to this place known as Tuti Arts.
(04:32):
Yes. And back then I was all like, what? What is this? yeah yeah
but yeah i was also i
also went to 2d arts with two of
my other classmates as well yes so that was joey yes so yeah joey roberts yeah
and caleb yes caleb scott yeah yeah who was the 2d coordinator back then that
(04:55):
was so that was ali oh okay and so did you used to go over to Tanunda?
Is that when? Oh, no, it was actually in Noori at first. Yes.
It was in that Catholic church.
Oh, yeah. I can't remember the name of it. Yeah, I think there's only one Catholic
church. Yeah. Yeah, and then it moved to Tanunda after that.
Yes, it did, yeah. Oh, cool.
(05:16):
So then you were sort of with Tuti for a while and did you study anywhere else?
I did study at Laid Tafe. Yes.
Yeah, I got accepted for a scholarship. Oh, fantastic. A foundation barossa. Fantastic.
So that helped me get into TAFE. Yes. Yeah.
(05:39):
Yeah, so the first, so the course I went to was, it was Bachelor of Visual Arts. Yes.
Which I really enjoyed it, but then eventually I ended up having some difficulties with it.
Yes. Like I just really struggled.
With the theory side, but I was also struggling with the system of TAFE. Yes. Yes.
(06:03):
So then, so the following year, which was 2021.
2020 must have been a fairly hard year. Oh, yes. It was. Anyway.
Yeah. Well, you had COVID.
Yeah. And I guess, you know, that 2020 year, I guess you would have had to do
a lot of just study online.
Yeah. Promotely as well, which I actually think is really quite hard.
(06:25):
Oh, yeah. Particularly with visual arts. when you know like,
there's a real benefit to being, you know, in the church.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I know. I had to live over with my sister just to do it as
well. Yeah. And does your sister live in?
Back then she used to live in Elizabeth, but now she's Everston Gardens. Okay. Cool. Cool.
(06:46):
And so then you sort of changed a little bit from the bachelor to the?
I went into Cert IV. IV. Yeah.
Great. great and yeah I was enjoying it
but not as much as Bachelor of the Arts because
I felt like in Bachelor you got to learn
much more yes yeah but again I
did struggle yeah yeah so I
(07:09):
mean I think that's amazing though and I think that's amazing that you managed
to do that at all in 2020 so well done oh thanks and did you get to do lots
of different kinds of art or did you like like different kind of art styles
and techniques and things in that course? Oh, yeah.
So with Cert IV, I got to have a programme on ceramics, printmaking.
(07:34):
And I guess like some watercolours and relics. Did you do oil painting as well?
Oh, no, I didn't do that. Yes.
And what would you say is your favourite medium? What do you love to work in? I love watercolour.
It's been a huge love of mine since I was a wee little girl.
Yeah, it all started off when my mum, she bought me this massive watercolour
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palette and back then I believed that I had every single colour in the world.
So I was always painting with it.
That's beautiful actually. So yeah, my love for watercolour really continued
after that. Yes, absolutely.
And are you still doing watercolours today? Oh, of course I am.
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What do you like? So, and I'm not a very, I'm not merely as good an artist as
you, but like what sort of, what do you like about watercolours?
I think I just love how it just, just make one brush stroke.
It just feels like I'm just flowing with the way, how the brush is.
Yeah, because the thing that I love about watercolours is like you,
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that real flow that you get. Yeah, and just the subtlety of the colour and just that it feels so soft.
Oh, yes. Yeah.
Cool. And so just looking around the room here for the listeners at home,
you've got a couple of really quite cool paintings.
Some I can see are, you know, there's a couple of really beautiful framed ones as well.
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Can you tell me about, so I'm looking at one that is a dragon, which is like amazing.
Thing I'm like really very taken with it and there's there's a couple of others
that have like a have the moon in them and the sky quite a number of them have the moon oh yes,
which is your favorite painting in here oh that's quite hard I know I'm asking
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you too many hard questions usually I find my favorite ones are usually the ones that,
my most recent we may yes yeah and where do you get your inspiration.
So do you because you obviously are in the studio a couple of days a week yeah
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so do you sort of get your inspiration from nature around you or do you does
it just you know the mood takes you Do you paint or?
Well, it's actually quite all of those. Yeah.
So a lot of my art style comes from my imagination most of the time.
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Otherwise, I am very inspired by the landscape around here. Yes.
In the Barossa. Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely. And clearly you're also very inspired by the moon and those images.
Oh, yeah. Images. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
And it's just been the full moon, so probably you've been out looking at the
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full moon for a couple of nights as well, haven't you?
Oh, even one night I saw the moon so huge and golden, right, when it was rising.
Yes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I love seeing the moon when it's like that. Yeah, absolutely.
You know, so a large part of your inspiration comes from the landscape and your
imagination. Have you got any other, are there any other artists that you like
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to, that inspire you or that you like to look at their work?
Well, that's always been a tricky question for me because I've always found
it quite difficult to have like just the one specific artist.
Yeah. I've always...
Like artworks from a whole different, like so many different artists. Yes.
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But at the moment I've been getting really inspired by animators. Yes, yes.
Yeah, so one of them I've actually been inspired by for a few years now.
That would be Osamu Tezuka. Yes. Okay. Yeah.
Is that who did Adam Boy? Yes. Okay. Great. It's quite huge in Japan. Massive. Yeah.
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Yeah, and such beautiful illustrations. Oh, yes. And the expressions on.
So do you like Studio Ghibli as well? Oh, absolutely love them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you have, so my favourite Studio Ghibli, well, I have two favourite Studio
Ghibli movies. The first one would be Toto.
I love Toto.
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But the other one would be probably Spirited Away. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, everybody loves Totoro, but it's just that beautiful,
like the illustrations are obviously beautiful, but the sincerity of the story,
like it's just so simple and pure.
I love that. Yeah.
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I find it hard to pick a favourite one because they're all just so good.
Yeah, they are. Yeah. Amazing.
There's a cool little, there's a studio, I believe, I believe,
I suppose it's a museum in Tokyo, sort of in the suburbs of Tokyo.
And it's all pretty cool. But my favourite room, and it's for very,
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very small children, but it's like a soft Totoro bus.
Oh, yeah. And so all the little kids were like, they could climb in.
And so it's like made of soft, you know, like a plush toy or whatever. Oh, that's so much fun.
But they were all very, very little. So I didn't feel like I could join in.
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But I did observe that, like, with delight, actually. It was gorgeous. So one day. Yeah. Yeah.
Music.
Talked a little bit about your sort of artistic inspirations and,
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as I said, you've got a whole heap of beautiful artwork around,
a couple that look like you're in the middle of. Yeah.
Some that are finished. And we're currently in July 2024 and Sala is just around the corner. Oh, yeah.
You've got an exhibition coming up for Sala? I do, actually.
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So I've got an art exhibition with 2T Arts.
Yes. So that exhibition is called Unleash.
And so that also correlates to the Inside Out project, which I'm also a part of. Yes.
Where we've been like designing the front area of the house.
Oh, of 2D Arts. Yeah. So let's just take a step back because we've talked about 2D Arts a little bit.
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Yeah. Can you tell me a little bit about 2D Arts?
So it's an organisation that runs sort of arts programs for all sorts of like
very accessible arts programs and they have in the last few years taken over
or they have leased the, is it the House of Hope?
Yes, it is. In Neerupur and so is this the Inside Out project?
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So that's been all renovated at the moment, is it? Yes, it is. Yeah.
So we've been designing some sculptures to sit on the outside,
Oh, wow. Yeah. And sculptures are using what kind of materials?
So we've been doing like laser cut stills. Yes.
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That's been like powder coated. Yeah. So the designs come from like drawings
by 3D artists. Yes. Oh, fantastic.
Oh, wow. And so have you contributed to some of those designs? I have. Have you? Oh.
And so will that be, so that's the Inside Out project.
And when will that be completed? Will that be completed in time for Sala or
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that's a little bit further down the track?
It will be a little further down the track, but we will definitely have those
sculptures ready by then.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that's a project sort of maybe for later in the
year, but Sala is called Unleashed.
Yes. And what have you done for that? What piece have you done or pieces? Yeah.
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Well, I've done this watercolour painting.
Of like a castle and a lake. There's like all these hills around it. Awesome.
And a small girl looking at the castle, dreaming.
And we were talking before about the story behind, you know,
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some of the paintings and how interesting that is.
Yeah. And so can you tell me the story behind that painting?
Well, the original inspiration of it, when I couldn't stop, Feeling the paper.
I do love watercolor paper too. Oh, yes.
So originally it was inspired by like an earlier artwork I did back in high school.
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Well, that was especially the classroom part of it. Yes. Yeah.
It was also inspired by a Studio Ghibli film, Lakita. Yes.
About, like, how, you know, how they have, like, cars within the sky.
Yeah. There's cars within the lake.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, like, some of the,
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just that beautiful free imagining as well.
You know, like, what the world or what your, you know, the world around you
could look like. I think that's beautiful. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just trying to see now if I can see that one here.
That's currently our 2D apps. I'm sorry.
You'll get to see the opening on the 3rd. So it's the 3rd of August, the opening?
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Excellent. And then that will be open for most set days over August, will it?
Yes. So Mondays and Wednesdays? Yes. Yeah. From 9 to 3?
Cool, cool, cool. And will you be in there on those days as well?
Or you've got a bit of a schedule for when you're in there?
Well, I'll only be there on Wednesdays. Yes.
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So, yeah, I'll probably be working on like my own thing.
Yes. But in the second half of the day, I'm normally working on the Inside Out project.
Oh, fabulous. Yes. Fabulous. Okay, cool. Oh, well, that's something to look
forward to. Yeah. I'm definitely coming to have a look at that. Excellent.
So, I am, and I'm probably going to have to take a photo of this,
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but Rebecca has this beautiful dragon painting that is sitting behind her can
you tell me where you exhibited that and you have quite a lot of paintings that
have dragons and horses and things is that because you know you have a you imagine
a world with dragons I always do.
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But also I also have a bit of a story with dragons as well like from when I was a very young girl.
Like whenever I used to look out to the hills, I always used to believe that
there were actually dragons sleeping.
Interesting. Yeah. Because this is not necessarily my area of expertise,
but I believe there is the legend of the giant. And it's a kind of legend.
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And that's where the Barossa rangers came from, all the Mount Lofty rangers.
And it's the giant. And Eurypter, where we are now, is the net country of the giant.
Yeah. But you can, yeah, I can completely see how you, as a,
you know, you could see that. It's there for sure. Yeah.
And you have quite a lot of water in your paintings as well.
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Yes, I've always felt very attracted to water. Yeah. Yeah.
Like water has always been like something like a healing for me.
Yeah. I completely understand.
And so is there, you know, like your interest in horses, is that something similar to the dragon?
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Not that you saw the horses in the hills, but does the horses mean something to you as well?
Well, like, again, when I was little, I went to one of my great uncle's farm.
And I remember meeting his horse, who was named Princess.
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And yeah, and I just thought that she was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
And then ever since then, I just had this huge love for horses.
But I also feel like that it also represents my family as well.
Like my grandparents, they loved horses and my great-grandparents had horses.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And do your family still live in the Barossa?
Yes, they do. Yes, they do? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and there's not so many horses here. Yeah, no, sad.
That does happen. I do think princess is a good name for a horse.
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Yeah. Yeah. Very beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And so where to from here with your art, Rebecca, do you have sort of any plans
to, I know 2D has a workshop, I suppose, in, is it Brighton?
Like that's sort of their headquarters.
Do you have any plans to do some work down there or?
Not really so much. But I do plan on building up my own little business. Yes. Yeah.
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Yeah. So one thing to achieve is putting my artworks onto products. Great.
And then sell them across the roster. Yeah. Absolutely. And have you got any examples?
Oh, I think you've made some. Yeah, I've made some. Yeah. Yeah.
Would you like to have a look? I would like to have a look. Thank you.
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Oh, wow. Actually, that's beautiful.
So these are all Rebecca Eglinton art cards. And so where do you have them?
Oh, they're gorgeous. There's a whole heap of sort of quite whimsical landscapes,
aren't they? They're beautiful.
And do you have them for sale anywhere? Yes, I do.
I currently have them at the Barossa Regional Art Gallery. Yes.
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And also at Barossa Sister. sister oh great i'm
hoping soon i'll have them in the angustin brossa
collective yes yeah and also
at the tananda visitors center oh fabulous i
really like this one and maybe i can
take a couple of photos maybe we can pop these on there
as well of course yeah but i really
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love the like the the horse in the landscape it's
like really gorgeous i like really love these
two with the sort of the horse in the landscape like you could
you could really just have that as a landscape but that
horse just makes it like it's a little bit musical it almost
looks like it could be you know like the horse is you
looking at yeah i don't know if that's they're gorgeous
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all right well 100 let's look out for those and i'll take some photos of those
as well that's beautiful the water is beautiful they say yeah i can see some
really clear themes in your work around horses of water and yeah they're lovely
well done oh thank you yeah.
So rebecca i've asked everybody in
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this series a question about the brossa and you know like you have such a a
deep connection with the brossa as you know you've been here your whole life
what does that what does the brossa mean to you well the brossa to me it's always
been my phone like Like I've lived here for my whole life, really.
But I've always loved looking at the landscapes.
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Oh, and then sometimes some rainbows.
Like even from a young age, it even gave me my imagination. Yes.
Just like thinking about those dragons sleeping.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And, you know, like I think it's really interesting
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talking to you about, you know, the landscape because I grew up in the Barossa as well.
So we've seen, you know, those landscapes that you've seen over and over and over again.
And then what's so interesting is that when you think about,
it's almost like your interpretation or, you know, like a slightly different
way of thinking about the landscape.
Yeah. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, look, that's really lovely. And I've so enjoyed talking to you this morning, Rebecca.
Thank you so much. I have too. Thank you.
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