An assortment of people, animals, vehicles, boats, furniture, crockery and cutlery, Ken Whisson’s paintings are a lively description of our inner and external worlds. Acutely observed scenes are depicted alongside abstract forms and linework, utilising varied and at times skewed perspectives, conflating interior and exterior spaces. These sometimes-disorienting scenes do more than directly describe our world; they offer fresh and constantly surprising points of view.
Included in this exhibition are Whisson’s ‘drawing(s) in paint’; works completed over several sittings, nurturing the artist’s spontaneity.
Ken Whisson, The Bus Driver and His Car, 2020, oil on canvas, 95 x 120cm. Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Niagara Galleries
29 September to 24 October 2020
Online
