Sydney-based artist, Turner Fairfax’s exhibition, ‘Verandah’, presents a new series of oil paintings documenting various vistas of Sydney Harbour in the artist’s signature layering of colour and texture, which embody an ethereal quality of light on water.
Works such as Tivoli Foreshore, Sydney Harbour (2014) reference specific sites within the harbour, though these are not direct representations of places. Rather, the works are an impression that the artist recreates from memory in order to evoke a sense of living and working by a meandering waterway. Other works feature the imagery of a date palm, a reoccurring motif in Turner Fairfax’s practice and signifies the watchful protector or sentinel of the harbour.
Liverpool Street Gallery
1 to 27 November, 2014
Sydney
Tivoli Foreshore, Sydney Harbour, 2014, oil pastel on handmade paper, 31.5 x 24cm
Courtesy the artist and Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Photography: Michel Brouet
