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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.

