'So Many Sub-Genres', 2009 Acrylic on Aluminium 125 x 120 cm
Super sweet still life paintings by Melbourne-based artist Dane Lovett, have a young, fun quality not unusually attributed to this style of painting. 2011 was a big year for Lovett, after being featured in RUSSH magazine’s art issue, the artist was invited to exhibit his first solo show, ‘Peach on Peach’, at Colette in Paris. He was also awarded the Australia Council Tokyo Studio residency. (more…)
The Spectator from kate shaw on Vimeo.
From her latest exhibition, 'Wilderness and Mirrors' shown at Sullivan and Strumpf November 2011
Australian artist Kate Shaw has extended her work on landscape painting creating a video titled ‘The Spectator’. The melting, moving quality of her paintings is brought to life as clips of pouring paint are layered with footage of natural disasters of the 21st century. Fascinated by the way the pouring paint can resemble motion in the natural realm – avalanches, lava flow, waves on the shore and landslides – Shaw’s paintings are created by pouring acrylic paint and looking for images within the patterns as they naturally form. She then samples pieces of the dried poured paint to create a larger image. The result is swirling hyper-coloured fantasy world, beautiful yet ominous. (more…)