Tenebrae Painting

James Waller is an Australian/English artist and poet, currently based in Clonakilty, Ireland. He has a wide ranging practice, encompassing Baroque, Byzantine and Modernist approaches to art making. His paintings, textiles and sculptures have appeared in the Sydney Opera House, St Patrick’s Cathedral (Melbourne) and the Kasmir World Music Festival. In 2010 several of his unique abstract icons were included in a survey exhibition, “Sacred Icons in Australia” at the Riddoch Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia. Since 2013 he has immersed himself in the Baroque and has concentrated on developing a classical painterly language. In this endeavour the artist has been inspired by a new wave of brilliant 'neo Baroque' or 'kitsch' painters, emerging across the world, and particularly by the Norwegian master Odd Nerdrum. In Ireland James is represented by 2020 Gallery, Cork and The Loft Gallery, Clonakilty.