Marc Etherington, Dinner Time, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 121 x 91cm. Courtesy: the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery.

Marc Etherington’s works take pop culture, fantastical imagined scenarios and scenes of everyday life as his subject matter, rendering them through a darkly humorous and sometimes absurd lens.

About his latest body of work, Marc shares: “I am living in a small town in Alberta where it’s not uncommon to see somebody wearing a cowboy hat, cowboy boots or a big shiny belt buckle. Also dinosaur bones are found sometimes down by the river. A man found a huge one last year imbedded into the river bank which went to a museum collection. I’m obsessed with finding my own dinosaur bones. I think maybe these two things have seeped into my subconscious and worked their way into my new paintings.”

Opening Event: Thursday 25 August, 6 – 8pm