ESSAY I Euan Macleod’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Two years ago, Macleod returned to his hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, to be with his mother during the final phase of her life. At Sumner Beach, they revisited the familiar rock formation known as Tuawera or Cave Rock, a hulking, volcanically formed volume opening onto an interior space that changes with the tides. To […]
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Euan Macleod
Modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Peter Booth render humans moving shadows, blended with their environs. Euan Macleod charts a different path. In his early masterpieces, for instance, Bacon depicts spectral flesh, with bodies, and faces – animal, human, humanoid – becoming phantoms. Bacon’s works juxtaposed animal states, erotic spectacle, and exposed meat, within a context of […]
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Jumaadi
In his first-floor studio on the fringe of a large industrial estate on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi is crouched down in the middle a suite of paintings that spread across the floor. He has removed his shoes and is scrambling over six three-metre-long epic narrative paintings that employ his familiar naïve imagery. So […]
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Andrew Christofides
Christofides’s new show ‘Parallel Universe: A Paradise of Images,’ at King Street Gallery, works between these modes of mark- and meaning-making. Christofides explores what it might be for a painting to ‘mean’ without having to ‘refer.’ Intensely interested in order, pattern, and slick, clean logics of spatial organisation, these new paintings enquire about the kinds […]
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Tom Carment | New paintings – old habits
During a typical week Tom Carment might journey around the city of Sydney to make watercolours, visit a friend to paint their portrait, or draw in the streets with a pencil and sketchbook.
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