Kim Carpenter’s Solo Show - Preview
In and around Shakespeare’s
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
6-21 April 2024
maunsell and wickes at Barry Stern Galleries Paddington NSW
Eternal Love
Oberon:
Through this palace with sweet peace; And the owner of it bless’d
Ever shall in safety rest.
Trip away, make no stay;
Meet me all by break of day
97 x 80 cm
The Spell
Oberon:
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make all man all woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees
97 x 80 cm
Overcast The Night
Oberon’s command to Puck
97 x 80 cm cm
To The Best Bride
Oberon:
To the best bride – bed will we,
Which by us blessed be;
And the issue there create
Ever shall be fortunate.
So shall all the couples three
Ever true in loving be,
And the blots of Nature’s hand
Shall not in their issue stand.
80 x 63cm
As I Remember Her
97 x 80 cm
Australian Dream
I had a dream…
97 x 80 cm
Hermia’s Vision
Never so weary, never so in woe,
Bedabbled with the dew,
and torn with briars -
I can no further crawl, no further go
80 x 63cm
Oberon's Command
80 x 63cm
Hermia and Lysander
Here I will rest until the break of day
80 x 63cm
Fairyland 1
80 x 97 cm
Fairyland 2
80 x 97 cm
If we shadows have offended
Puck:
If we Shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended…
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear
97 x 80 cm
The Intoxicating Forest
97 x 80 cm
Titania’s Love Nest
80 x 63cm.
I had a dream
80 x 63cm
Obsession
80 x 63cm
To Heaven We All Go
Puck:
Up and down, up and down,
I will lead them up and down;
I am fear’d in field and town
Goblin, lead them up and down
97 x 80 cm
Dreaming 2
Puck:
Flying between the cold Moon
and the Earth
50 x 42cm
Dreaming 3
Puck:
I go. I go.
Look how I go.
Swifter than an arrow
from the Tartar’s bow.
50 x 42cm
Dreaming 1
Oberon, King of Shadows
50 x 42cm
TRADIES as THE PLAYERS
Mistress Snout
50 x 42cm
Snug (to Quince):
Have you The Lion’s part written? -
Pray you, if it be, give it me;
For I am slow of study
50 x 42cm
Bottom
We may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously
50 x 42cm
Francis Flute
Nay, faith.
Let me not play a woman.
50 x 42cm
Robin Starveling, The Tailor
Does the moon shine
the night we play?
50 x 42cm
Peter Quince
Rollcall of The Hempen
Homespuns - The Players
They never laboured in their minds before
50 x 42cm
Rock The Ground - The Wedding Party 2
80 x 97 cm
Rock The Ground - The Wedding Party 1
Oberon to Titania:
Come my queen,
Take hands with me
And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
80 x 63cm
The Magician
65 x 80cm
Puck
42 x 50cm