Weir’s mature vision and technique is highlighted in this new body of work, which encompasses three strands of his practice: generic paintings in oil, illusions with mythological allusions in oil and sculptural assemblages in watercolour.
The generic paintings are everyday scenes with living objects, common painting tropes. Here, our eyes are directed toward nuance and mood – effect as affect.
The sculptural assemblages are based in primitive abstraction – seeing the form of a person in a group of stones – and extrapolated into complex spontaneous formations that begin to move like Pygmalion’s Galatea.
Barthe House
11 December, 2013 to 16 February, 2014
Sydney
Couple Making Love on a Stoney Beach, 2012, watercolour on Arches paper, 22 x 20cm
Courtesy the artist and Barthe House, Sydney
