A group exhibition coinciding with our Sydney Contemporary 2019 group show and featuring the works of Agneta Ekholm and Michael Taylor among others.
The Politics of Dreams
A group exhibition coinciding with our Sydney Contemporary 2019 group show and featuring the works of Agneta Ekholm and Michael Taylor among others.
With a painting process refined over nearly three decades, I build layer upon layer of translucent and semi‑translucent layers, with moments of solid depth through controlled surrender, allowing chance and precision to coexist as images emerge slowly. Building, dissolving, and rubbing back the surface until a final image appears, each gesture becomes a kind of trace, of breath, of time, of inner terrain.
Michael Taylor mimics the immediate and expansive nature of the drawing process in order to develop scenes and characters in his painted work. Removed from its purely observational qualities, drawing becomes a projection of the artist’s intuition, imagination and memory. Representational and figurative elements in Taylor’s paintings create narrative frameworks that are unravelled to varying degrees through abstract marking.