WE WILL BE YOUR HERO BABY
An exploration of the painterly as a visual language for creating playfully critical narratives across a variety of historically loaded material surfaces.
My studio based practice intuitively draws from a personalised painterly vocabulary of colourful, gestural marks through a humorous lens to form a cast of figurations across a range of surfaces, from canvas and textiles to clay. This visual lexicon conceals and reveals characters, drawn from art history, mythology, pop culture and film, through layers of abstraction and materiality. The resulting artworks create new ambiguous narratives that serve as critical tools playfully subverting the loaded histories of paint, artistic tropes and its mythologised masculinity.
The rectangle
the framed edge
Famed, strictlybound
Confound out
I confine you not
stretched thin,
spread thick
ever so slowly,
ever so quick
I bind you barely
baring my soul
Beware of control.
flick, drip, drop
let it go
or so I try
between the painterly and I
Harry Bayston holds a Master of Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from University of New South Wales Art & Design. He has exhibited consistently since 2017 in Victoria and New South Wales with multiple solo exhibitions and group shows at both commercial and artist run galleries, such as Compendium Gallery, No Vacancy Gallery, AIRspace Projects and gaffa Gallery. Bayston’s work is held in private and corporate collections across Australia and London. He has created several murals and public artworks, including for Lost Paradis Festival, The Langham Hotel Sydney and UNSW Art & Design. His work is featured online in press such as Time Out and a Monograph published by Blind Angles at Perimeter Books Melbourne.
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