William Mackinnon, 200 x 150cm

“William Mackinnon loves what paint can do and is interested in creating moments of rupture – or rapture – through the serendipities of technique. With seeming ease he captures the velvet sheen of dark, the crackled bark of a tree, the fur of the silent, waiting bushland on a road’s verge. His evocations of sea include not only the shimmer of light hitting the water, and the creaming froth of a wave, but also the feel of sea spray. Signs remain of paint spattered against the canvas, and these lush drip marks remind us of both the liquid possibilities, the very wateriness of paint, and the experience of being submerged ourselves in the deep.” ~ Chloe Hooper

This event will also officially launch William Mackinnon’s monograph publication.