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Pure Escapism Print
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Pure Escapism plays with the ideals of the great Australian family holiday and the current trend of Baby Boomer Grey Nomads and evolves it into a ‘playful nightmare.’ That the ‘escapees’ are still tethered is deliberately poignant. These new paintings continue the exploration of humanity begun in my earlier works, but moves from the external world to the internal. Ostensibly moody skies, they are more than mere landscapes: The clouds provide a grounding in reality, but their purpose is to provide a unifying yet changing backdrop against which complex foreground dramas unfold. Recognizable cliché are used to trigger viewer familiarity - after which the narrative unexpectedly departs. Deliberately ambiguous, the concepts invite multiple interpretations with subtle, yet barbed, wry social and political satire. The combination of image and title adds an additional level of meaning, for together it becomes apparent that each is a quirky metaphor for a particular personality characteristic - and ultimately, the opening chapter in an endless set of stories the viewer is invited to create.
Original Created:2008
Subjects:Political
Materials:Canvas
Styles:SurrealismConceptualRealism
Mediums:Oil
Details & Dimensions
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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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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