Patrick Dagg
Painting | Collage
Friday 1 November - Saturday 23 November 2024
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Patrick Dagg’s work looks at systems and hierarchies that exist around us, particularly in regard to the notions of value and taste. Drawing on found ...
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pieces is a body of work developed over the past 7 years that encompasses the multi-faceted nature of my practice. From collage to gestural abstraction, representation to symbolism, I am searching for a visual language that articulates ongoing themes such as death, remembrance and value.
The earlier works in the show explore the nature of painting in relation to graffiti and vandalism, with textured surfaces built up and taken away to build a patina reminiscent of urban decay. There is an attempt to subvert the historical nature of painting through the use of non-traditional material and embracing aesthetics usually deemed “low”.
As this body of work developed, there began recurring symbols such as faces, shapes and coded figures which stood to represent personal histories, as well as reference to source material such as graffiti and art history. The death of my father 17 years ago is embedded in the work, as a practice of grieving, renewal and searching; making pictures to try and make sense of the world around me.
Later works use screen printing as a vehicle to explore more specific ideas of figuration through visual metaphors or “stand-ins” that are able to be more intentional. Using images found in films, auction catalogues and the internet at large, I’m able to create works with tension and personal significance. Referencing films that I watched with my late father as a way of reliving and remembrance, I merged them with mark-making and text.
To see these works together is a joy, and despite a changing aesthetic, I feel these works are all anchored in the same ongoing concerns. They are fragments. Pieces of time. And they hope to form a whole.
Patrick Dagg, artist
Brotherhood
Neon, oil and paper on canvas
167 x 107 cm
$9,000
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I Can’t Get Free Without You
Paper, oil and enamel on canvas
137 x 112 cm
$8,000
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Not Much To Say But Grace
Oil on canvas
71 x 96 cm
$3,500
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Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm Lightning
Oil on canvas
71 x 96 cm
$3,500
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Simple Ways to Reach the Shore
Paper, oil & enamel on canvas
152 x 183 cm
$10,500
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Something In The Way
Oil on canvas
71 x 96 cm
$3,500
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The Big Stink
Oil, enamel and paper on canvas
153 x 102 cm
$8,500
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There Is No Such Thing as Being Haunted
Acrylic, oil, bleach and paper on canvas
153 x 116 cm
$8,500
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I'm Having Dreams About You
Acrylic, enamel and neon on canvas
138 x 112 x 9 cm
$9,000
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Basil Papoutsidis
Sculpture
Friday 1 November - Saturday 23 November 2024
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Basil Papoutsidis is a practising, Melbourne-based artist who previously completed a BFA (Visual Art) at the University of Melbourne (VCA) in 2014. Through a fanaticism ...
View Basil's profileUntitled (Outrigger)
Stainless steel & clear polyurethane
105 x 100 x 70 cm
$4,800
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Untitled (Sheave)
Stainless steel & clear polyurethane
80 x 187 x 103 cm
$6,400
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Intermediate Rigging I
Stainless steel, steel frame & enamel
97 x 126 x 7.5 cm
$3,800
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Intermediate Rigging II
Stainless steel, steel frame & enamel
97 x 126 x 7.5 cm
$3,800
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