Brock Q Piper
THE TEMPERANCE; ARRANGEMENT IN AUGMENTED LAMENT, 2018
Oil and charcoal on canvas
140 x 140 cm
Brock Q Piper
HOLOFERNES AND THE TRIAL OF CARAVAGGIO, 2018
Oil and charcoal on canvas
110 x 110 cm
23 July - 18 August 2018
Lani Mitchell /
Brock Q. Piper
BROCK Q. PIPER
Valley Below
Valley Below presents definitive new work by Australian contemporary artist Brock Q. Piper and marks his latest exhibition with Metro Gallery in Armadale (Melbourne). The title of the exhibition, V a l l e y – B e l o w refers to the autobiographical experiences of the artist, exploring concepts of the known and unknowable parts of self that lie below the surface. His work takes inspiration from archetypal spirituality, using contorted bodies, fused with animals in motion in an exploration of emotions and memories. This particular body of work expands on themes that Piper has been developing over the past four years. He reflects on his experiences growing up in country NSW and explores totemic imagery within his work as a tool to convey narrative and emotional experience.
“As an artist, I am compelled to explore personal experiences and translate them into paintings, drawings and poems to express that
which cannot be understood without the abstraction of creation. It’s about one’s own past being observed outside of context, and how
we self-assess by explore the past through our present understandings.” – Piper says.
LANI MITCHELL
EDEN
Mitchell's work reveals an incredibly intuitive approach with fluid compositions, particularly attentive to textual forms, creating beautiful sensuality that draws the viewer into an experiential or emotional plane. As much as Mitchell's paintings are executed in a feverish and frenzied immediacy, they are abstracted, layered with a deep consideration for the raw force that drives her creation. Mood and emotions merge and coalesce on the surface of the canvas. The paint is performative, professing both an allusion to feeling, and also acting as a veil; disfiguring the layers of stories she builds into the weft and weave of the canvas. The work is voluptuous. Mitchell creates alchemic landscapes, full of passion, intensity and a lust for life.
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