Nicholas Blowers’ recent series of paintings relate to the world of insects. He has used electron microscopes and macro photography to translate an accuracy into these detailed images of insects found in his studio. In some paintings there are groupings of insects derived from the electron microscope plates. In other pictures the focus is on a solitary insect. The over-arching theme in his work is collapse and decay.
Blowers sees the insects as portraits with his main focus being how to capture the singularity of decay or the particular nature of an insect’s design within this unknown landscape.
MiCK
Until December 2, 2012
Sydney
Decaying amaryllis, 2012, oil on paper, 75 x 102cm
Courtesy the artist and MiCK, Sydney
