Richard Denny has consistently turned to shredded maps in his bold, idiosyncratic character studies, which operate in some blurred space between truth and imagination.
In Denny’s layered, bold compositions, members of the Social Club’s twelfth subsection quizzically return our gaze. The works are often double flattened, painted within the painting and framed within the frame. Within the logic of Denny’s world this makes sense: the Twelfth Club is a painting club, and the workers of the Postal Service have painted themselves. This layering of fact within fiction works its way back out to the ‘real’ world, too.
Chapman & Bailey
September 10 to 29, 2012
Melbourne
Looking back to go forward, 2012, mixed media on linen, 180 x 180cm
Courtesy the artist