Paul Ryan has for decades navigated the landscape, drawing inhabitants from history and placing, or misplacing, them in his landscape. Politically charged with a wicked wit, his imaging of the sartorial elegant colonial interlopers—sardonically rendered in oil—has become a mainstay of contemporary Australian visual culture. There is, at times, a punk sensibility to this most serious of artists.

Opening Event: Thursday 20 October, 2022, 6-8pm.