Informed by the natural world, literature and the universe, Mark Schaller paints en plein air in the Royal Botanical Gardens, encapsulated between two worlds: the garden as wild nature and urban interactions and intervention. His paintings and sculptures are responding to undesirable changes to nature and climate.
Surrounded by the urban environment, human interaction and intervention, Schaller embraces this disrupted sense of the sublime. The result is an intense series of conversational paintings between humans and nature. Botanical shapes intertwined with the human figure appearing and reappearing in the bold and colourful post-sublime universe Schaller explores. Animated shapes that make a scene.
Mark Schaller, Botanicus, Fantasticus II, II (Diptych), 2019, oil on board, 183 x 246cm. Courtesy the artist and Fox Galleries, Melbourne
Fox Galleries
Online: 1 May to 1 July 2020
Melbourne
Works viewable online via the gallery’s website
