Lovett’s still life paintings, despite the digital world we live in, hark back to the not too distant past – a time of home recorded video cassettes, LP records and copied CDs. His works are delicate observations of remnants from music and popular culture in which private histories collide with universal stories.
Drawing on a still life tradition, Lovett nests forgotten and discarded technology amongst domestic plants and foliage stems, propagated in used glass jars. The plant cuttings bring these objects, and their associated memories, alive. They float from being solely personal into a space of shared cultural experience.
Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art
March 27 to April 21, 2012
Dane Lovett, Cosmos Vessel, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 214 x 153cm.
Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney.
