Kevin Chin’s nine new, large-scale oil paintings intersect inverted landscapes to advocate borderless new territories, “symptomatic of an unstable world,” says the artist, “to offer comfort and respite, by bringing the domestic into wild settings.”
Rows of pumpkins recede into an iconically Australian outback dirt road or remote shacks, protected by towering trees, shimmer with colour and offer a sense of security. Some paintings act as portals passing between twin trees, or driving straight into the sky. Others suggest something amiss with clothes hanging across mountainsides or reflections turning the Earth upside down.
Kevin Chin, Double Lake Double Take, 2024, oil on Italian linen, 138 × 199cm. Courtesy the artist and Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Martin Browne Contemporary
10 October to 2 November 2024
Sydney
