OPENING EVENT Wednesday 10 April from 6:00pm at ANCA Gallery. Free to attend, no bookings required.
‘Ocular Demand’ is a solo exhibition of recent paintings. These works are a negotiation of abstraction and representation, concerning perceptual painting as well as more formal qualities such as composition and material delivery. Sourced imagery from screen grabs of environmental phenomena and natural disasters consider the role of 'picture making' from the solitude of the studio to the greater world we live in.
Joel Arthur is a Canberra based artist who works predominantly in painting. His practice is concerned with perception within the relationship of abstraction and representation. Optical patterning and photographic elements become repeated motives that reoccur through his practice. Joel Arthur has held a number of solo and group exhibitions in Canberra as well as interstate.