Price range: $290.00 through $310.00
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
A dancer caught mid-groove in sweeping black ink, hair flying, every dry-brush stroke alive with rhythm.
There is a split second in every good dance where thinking stops and the body takes over. Shake Your Groove Thing lives inside that second. A woman is caught mid-move, hair swinging wide, her weight already tipping into the next beat. She is not posed and she is not performing for anyone. She is loose, unguarded, completely inside the music. Black ink does all the work, sweeping across the white in strokes that thin and fracture where the brush ran dry, so the edge of her body seems to shiver rather than sit still. Look at it for a moment and you can almost hear the bass line she is moving to.
The technique behind it is dry-brush ink work, and it rewards speed while punishing hesitation. Each stroke is a single pass, made with a brush loaded just enough to bite the surface and then starve, leaving that broken, grainy trail you can see through her hair and along her arms. The splatters were never cleaned up because they are part of the record. They mark where the brush snapped through the air, tiny fallout from the force of the gesture. Nothing here was drawn slowly. The figure is deliberately loose, built to favour momentum over anatomy, so what you read is not a body standing still but the after-image of a body in motion.
The white space does half the talking. There is no background, no floor, no room, just the dancer and the silence around her, which makes the movement feel louder. Contemporary figurative art often works hard to describe a person. This piece does the opposite. It strips everything away until only rhythm is left, and trusts the viewer to fill in the song. That restraint is what gives a small ink sketch this much presence on a wall. It reads clearly from across a room and rewards a close look with all that gritty brush texture.
Shake Your Groove Thing is part of the Vintage Life Collection and was created at Running Duck Studio in Dayboro, Queensland, where most pieces start exactly like this one did, with music playing and a brush moving faster than second thoughts. It is an original, a one-off, not a print, and it comes framed and ready to hang. It suits a hallway, a bedroom, or any spot that could use a reminder to loosen up. If you have ever danced in the kitchen with nobody watching, this piece already belongs to you.
Shake Your Groove Thing
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
