Josh Honeyman

"There is no beauty without some strangeness" - Edgar Allan Poe---------------
Josh Honeyman lives near Blackheath close to the highest point of the Blue Mountains. Once or twice a year it snows, turning the region into a white wonderland. In summer it's green with rocky escarpments close at hand, rising out of the dense bushland. What better place to imagine a world
of hushed enchantment, far from the humdrum of the world's hysteria.
At news hour, we turn on the TV to absorb the horrors of war, terrorism, the tragedy of daily life, the cynicism of politics, the infractions of sports stars,
the bleak outlook for our planet. It's the burden of the everyday. Is there more to life than this ?
Artists sometimes want to transport us elsewhere, into the realm of the imagination where the human spirit can roam unrestricted. Josh Honeyman takes us there,
into visionary landscapes, reimagining the world through a host of signs, symbols and haunting scenarios. Arcane narratives are suggested, ones steeped in myth,
portents and divinations. There's love, death, poetry, mystery, wizardry, far beyond anything the camera can offer.
The fact that Honeyman is a highly skilled painter allows him to convince us of the validity of these alt...

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1997-1999, COFA, University of NSW.
Bachelor of Design, 2020 -2023, Western Sydney University.

Represented by Flinders st Gallery in Sydney, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
"Gothic"
Flinders Street Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
2015
“Snow Paintings”, FLINDERS STREET GALLERY, Surry Hills

2012
“Float on”, FLINDERS STREET GALLERY, Surry Hills

2010
New paintings, FLINDERS STREET GALLERY, Surry Hills

2008
New paintings, CHARLES HEWITT GALLERY, Surry Hills

Paintings, NG ART GALLERY, Chippendale

2007
“Fast and Furious”, RAY HUGHES GALLERY, Surry Hills

2006
Australia Week, BGH GALLERY, Los Angelas, U.S.A

2004
New Paintings, RAY HUGHES GALLERY, Surry Hills

2001
“Hanging by a Thread,” KUDOS GALLERY, Paddington

2000
“Dogfight,” KUDOS GALLERY, Paddington

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
“Four Narratives”, HAT HILL GALLERY, Blackheath

2015
“Snow Paintings”, HAT HILL GALLERY, Blackheath

2014
“Gesture”, COORAH CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, Wentworth Falls

2012
“Black, White, & Colour”, FLINDERS STREET GALLERY, Surry Hills

2011
Christmas exhibition, FLINDERS STREET GALLERY, Surry Hills

2009
Christmas exhibition, CHARLES HEWITT GALLERY, Darlinghurst
annual exhibition, LENNOX STREET STUDIOS, Newtown
A bar to call home, NG ART GALLERY, Chip...