THE LOST DOLL SERIES • CHAPTER ONE
A SOLO EXHIBITION
They had feared that She could not be made to obey.
Paintings and clay sculptures of women, lineage and the old ways of knowing.
6–16 November 2026
The Hive for Her
Burleigh Waters, QLD
Opening Night
Friday 6 November
5:30–8pm
THE SCULPTURES · ONE NIGHT ONLY
Register your attendance for a complimentary drink on the night, and go in the draw to win an A4 print of your favourite painting.
THE STORY
In the old story, a mother leaves her daughter a small doll and one instruction: keep her close, feed her, and tell no one.
The Lost Doll is a story in twenty-three verses, told through paintings and clay sculptures. It follows what became of that doll, and of us, when we forgot.
TWO FORMS OF ONE WOMAN
She was shaped in clay first. Then she was painted.
What resists control must be owned instead.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS · FRAMED
60 x 90 CM · $2,300
First, in clay.
RED EARTHENWARE · ONE NIGHT ONLY
$1,150
The thirteen sculptures will be shown on opening night only.
When the doors close, they go back into hiding.
FROM THE STORY
Each painting carries one verse.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
FRAMED · 60 × 90 CM
$2,300
The hiding did what force alone could not, and the women grew afraid of their own power.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
FRAMED · 60 × 90 CM
$2,300
The world reshaped itself around all that opposed her gifts: speed over depth, intellect over instinct, answerable not asking.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
FRAMED · 60 × 90 CM
SOLD · PRINTS FROM $85
Unburdened, self-made, fast-paced, free of anything old or unexplainable.
Ten paintings. Thirteen sculptures. One story.
THE MAKER
Made by hand, in the Tweed.
Each woman begins in clay. I don’t see her first; I begin creating, shaping and reshaping her, until I recognise her. It’s then that I know she has arrived in form.
The painting comes some time later. A version of the original, not identical. The lineage familiarity is there, a few generations along, perhaps, with pieces carried forward. Perhaps some of the potency is diminished, while other parts may have more deepening or colour.
It isn’t all about loss. It’s also about accessing the magic that is brought forward with us, dormant rather than gone.
Mostly, my work is a query about growth: what we give up to develop new parts of ourselves and keep in step with collective progress, and how we reach back to reclaim those valuable pieces, now that we recognise their power and the brilliantly vital part they play in womanhood.
Paintings and clay sculptures of women, lineage, and the old ways of feminine knowing and being.
Made in the Tweed
Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia
KEEPERS OF THE KNOWING
Occasional letters for those finding their way back to their own knowing: new works before anyone else sees them, and first refusal on originals
© 2026 Belinda Wearne · All artworks and images are copyright of the artist