The Scales
11 Oct – 23 Nov
The Scales brings into focus a quarter of a century of contemporary artist what’s practice. This exhibition reflects the artist’s natural state of play, the unity of opposites. Traversing the complexities of both colossal and diminutive paintings, rapid and laborious art making, what employs an expansive range of techniques which bring attention to his transcendent expertise. The Scales contemplates the various modes of measurement which society employs to quantify magnitude and worth. Measuring the ever-expanding universe, the durational repetition of an arts career, and the measurement of human worth through the lens of time/labor. This exhibition focuses on works made while living in the mountains, including his 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize-winning painting of Robert Forster. A feast for the eyes, a banquet for the mind, The Scales promises to shock and awe.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition
IMAGE: what Instrument for Measuring the Universe 2002-2004, oil on canvas, 200 x 450 cm. Collection Wollongong Art Gallery. Purchased 2004. Installation view, Hold the world to its word, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2024. Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch
