Through opalescent surfaces with colours that shift before your eyes, in his latest exhibition Kendal Heyes at Factory 49, Sydney, takes his painting into new terrain.
‘Painting after Photography’ looks at how photography has influenced the way we see the world and its impact on the contemporary painter.
Heyes is known for his exploratory work that tests the boundaries between media, in past work using photography, printmaking, pyrography and painting.
These works, made with plaster and mica-based pigments, question our assumptions about painting while remaining subtly wrought and beautiful objects.
Factory 49
17 to 26 October, 2013
Sydney
Image: Kendal Heyes, Detail XII, 2013, plaster and pigment on hessian, 37.5 x 32.5cm