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Australia
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in
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Using wrapping paper as a cliché to trigger viewer familiarity, the narrative then departs unexpected. By continuing the painting around the sides it become a play on form and surface, transforming the image from into a three dimensional entity: a gift-wrapped box. This provokes further questions: Is this a commentary concerning the environmental toll of consumer desire, represented by packaged goods? Or reluctant anticipation for inevitable changes to come? Does it illustrate the presumptuousness of the common belief that in this modern world we can really contain and control, box if you will, the environment? Or is this simply the artist, tongue firmly in cheek, wondering if anyone is really so anticipating his next work?
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Matthew was featured in BRW as one of Australia's top 50 artists. In the past few years he's won, or been a finalist for, more than 70 major national art awards. He's had 14 solo and 80 group shows. He's painted all his life but allowed himself to be distracted by other careers, working variously as a lecturer, art-director, photographer & writer. His first novel was short-listed for the Vogel Literary Award. He's lived in Australia, the UK, Portugal & Malaysia, and once camped for several months beneath a grand piano. He spent nights under stars in India, under-ground in Bolivia, under surveillance in Burma and under-nourished in London. His scariest moment was having machine-gun shoved in his face during Nepalese anti-monarchy riots, although crashing a para-glider into a forest was also something of a highlight.
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