Jun Chen, Wild Flower and Red Land, 2024, Oil on canvas, 136.7x160cm

Jun Chen’s journey through the Australian landscape is at the heart of his exhibition RED LAND. Trained in traditional ink painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and later in oil at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Chen owes much to his Chinese heritage for his sensitive and intuitive mark making. His delicate and articulate linework, coupled with an inherent affinity for imagining the landscape, has morphed into the viscous swaths of oil that define the beauty and essence of the interior of his adopted land. Chen, carving into his works with a palette knife, renders a surface that is both lively and beautifully composed. The perfection of his placement and clarity of colour give strength to his unbroken vision of the natural world.