1980’s
'Working on two scales, the immense and the intimate … Glowing luminously from sooty charcoal backgrounds, the works evoke an uncanny timelessness, at once ancient and sacrosanct, immediate and prophetic'.' Pamela Ashcroft
The Melbourne 'The Sun' 1985
'The dominant aspects of my work in the eighties are readily identified. The work was huge, dark, anatomically analytical and with a brooding sense of pathos. Nevertheless I often reminded myself even then that the insects outlived the dinosaurs. So for me intimacy, refinement and a certain subtelty could not and should not be sacrificed to overblown monumentality.'
G.B. in interview with O.B. 2019
1981 Ghosts, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne.
1983 Empirical Memos, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne.
1985 Catholic Sorrows, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne.
1986 Black Drawings, Gerstman Abdallah Fine Art International, Cologne, Germany.
1987 Ash Cartoons, Holdsworth Contemporary, Sydney.
1987 Ornaments of Mercy, Gerstman Abdallah Fine Art, Melbourne