Solo Exhibition
13 November – 7 December 2024
OPENING EVENT – Friday 15 November from 5:30pm. To be opened by leading Tasmanian architect
Elvio Brianese [Co-Founding Director of Liminal Studio].
Despard Gallery is proud to present solo exhibition In And Out Of Weeks, Through A Day by early career Tasmanian painter Joshua Andree.
In his first solo exhibition with Despard Gallery, Andree presents a new suite of his delicately executed paintings, capturing the ethereal qualities of the Tasmanian landscape that often evades simple explanation. Central to Andree’s inspiration are the inland lakes and coastal regions that trace the perimeters of dense wilderness unique to the West Coast of Tasmania. This includes focusing on the hazy threshold where the sky, land and water converge. Through a low-key palette, expansive gradients and glassy reflections, Andree describes the landscape in state of silent transition, the unfolding weather and waning light drawing us into moments of quietude.
Carefully composed, each work incorporates both real and imagined spaces, the distant mountains sitting in absolute visual harmony with the expanse of the sky. In doing so, Andree manages to convey a range of visual dichotomies simultaneously, including capturing both the weight and softness of the Tasmanian landscape, as well as its sense of permanence, caught in perpetual transition. With no definitive focal point, each painting captures the feeling of being immersed within the landscape, mesmerised by its significance.
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