Wayne Conduit Award
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner
PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: TRANSLATING INNER STATES INTO PAINTED FORM
Rufus Punton is a painter and printmaker. His work reflects his rural country upbringing drawing inspiration from vintage photographs from his grandparents’ collection, depicting people in rural landscapes in Victoria from the 1940s to the 1960s. He seeks to reflect on the distortion of faded memories through the act of painting, to create a sensory atmosphere of memory, longing and nostalgia. In re-contextualizing these photographic memories within a contemporary framework, he investigates how paint, as both medium and material, can be used to communicate complex psychological states associated with the human condition. Employing material process, surface manipulation, colour psychology, and compositional strategies, Punton’s works evoke affective and existential states.
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