Patrick Francis - SafARI 2014
Patrick Francis selected for SafARI 2014
http://artsproject.etools.com.au/2013-July-eNews.html
Arts Project Australia - July eNews (10/07/2013)
Patrick Francis - After Sidney Nolan 2012, acrylic on paper, 70x50cm
Patrick Francis has been selected as one of 14 emerging artists and collectives for the 2014 SafARI in Sydney. SafARI 2014 will be held at numerous venues across Sydney and will open 14 March, coinciding with the opening weeks of the Biennale of Sydney. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2014, SafARI aims to exhibit work by emerging Australian artists working across a diverse range of media. Arts Project is elated Francis has been selected for SafARI as this will continue to broaden his exposure within Australia.
http://artsproject.etools.com.au/2013-July-eNews.html
Arts Project Australia - July eNews (10/07/2013)
Patrick Francis - After Sidney Nolan 2012, acrylic on paper, 70x50cm
Patrick Francis has been selected as one of 14 emerging artists and collectives for the 2014 SafARI in Sydney. SafARI 2014 will be held at numerous venues across Sydney and will open 14 March, coinciding with the opening weeks of the Biennale of Sydney. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2014, SafARI aims to exhibit work by emerging Australian artists working across a diverse range of media. Arts Project is elated Francis has been selected for SafARI as this will continue to broaden his exposure within Australia.
Patrick Francis / VIC
at The Corner Cooperative
http://safari.org.au/2014/category/artists/
Patrick Francis - After Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring 2011, acrylic on paper, 56 x 38 cm
Patrick Francis’ paintings explore aspects of his personal experience, resulting in distilled images that represent various portraits and still-life installations. Often utilising acrylic on paper as his chosen medium, Francis uses bold colour as an expressive tool, focusing his and the viewers attention on key elements in his paintings. Francis often references imagery from art history and visual culture. However his innovation is the stripping back of these well-worn images – reducing them to their basic visual elements, flattening form and line into sweeping bright blocks of colour. Iconic imagery is recontextualised and condensed; allowing us a unique glimpse into the artist’s eye, where details are discarded and the true essence of image making is revealed.
Francis is a Melbourne-based artist who has been working with Arts Project Australia since 2009. His work received the Art &Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award in 2012, and has been shown in exhibitions nationally including at the National Gallery of Victoria, Arts Project Australia, Sheffer Gallery, Tanks Art Centre, and at the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair. His work is also held in a number of private collections nationally. artsproject.org.au
at The Corner Cooperative
http://safari.org.au/2014/category/artists/
Patrick Francis - After Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring 2011, acrylic on paper, 56 x 38 cm
Patrick Francis’ paintings explore aspects of his personal experience, resulting in distilled images that represent various portraits and still-life installations. Often utilising acrylic on paper as his chosen medium, Francis uses bold colour as an expressive tool, focusing his and the viewers attention on key elements in his paintings. Francis often references imagery from art history and visual culture. However his innovation is the stripping back of these well-worn images – reducing them to their basic visual elements, flattening form and line into sweeping bright blocks of colour. Iconic imagery is recontextualised and condensed; allowing us a unique glimpse into the artist’s eye, where details are discarded and the true essence of image making is revealed.
Francis is a Melbourne-based artist who has been working with Arts Project Australia since 2009. His work received the Art &Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award in 2012, and has been shown in exhibitions nationally including at the National Gallery of Victoria, Arts Project Australia, Sheffer Gallery, Tanks Art Centre, and at the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair. His work is also held in a number of private collections nationally. artsproject.org.au
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