Off the back of a sell-out inaugural solo exhibition in 2018, Despard Gallery is excited to announce The Horizon,the highly anticipated second solo exhibition by emerging Hobart artist Sam Field.
Within this new body of vibrant and raw paintings, Field adopts a distinctively robust aesthetic to critique Australian folk lore and unpick the mistruths woven into the fabric of our recorded history. Field’s work often adopts a hardened perspective that emphasises human fallibility, resulting in compositions that could be mistaken for post-apocalyptic Australian postcards. The sounds and tales that these paintings evoke are simultaneously wonderous and solemn, their concerns maybe uncomfortable, but are undeniably Australian.
“The uncomfortable negotiating of the mythologies of this country; it’s colonial mantle, its masculinity, its romanticism, its filmic lag, its apparently wild geography – Field embraces the discomfort of wrestling the Aussie battler head-on.”– Fernando do Campo
The Horizon – Artist Interview
EXHIBITION IMAGES
#1 SAM FIELD Quintessential Australian Landscape (The ghost of Makybe Diva over Wilpena Pound) 2020 oil on board 120 x 120 cm
SOLD
#7 SAM FIELD Burnt Scrub Below Mt. Sonder 2020 oil on board 100 x 120 cm SOLD
#9 SAM FIELD How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bomb (Maralinga Nightscape) 2020 oil on charred panel 120 x 110 cm SOLD
#6 SAM FIELD Albert's House 2019 oil on board 40 x 50 cm SOLD
#3 SAM FIELD Portrait of David Gulpilil as Fingerbone in the Movie Storm Boy 2020 oil on board 100 x 90 cm SOLD
#2 SAM FIELD Four Trees and Maralinga 2019 oil on board 120 x 110 cm SOLD
#4 SAM FIELD Dog Bait 2020 oil on board 90 x 100 cm SOLD
#5 SAM FIELD Man and Woman Walking Through Dry River of Empire (Man Laying Dog Bait) 2020 oil on board 132 x 122 cm SOLD
#11 SAM FIELD Erased Portrait of A. B. Facey with Desert Rose and Tobacco 2020 oil on board 130 x 120 cm SOLD
#12 SAM FIELD Choughs and Snake 2020 oil on board 40 x 50 cm SOLD
#13 SAM FIELD Cowboy (Caught Off Guard) 2020 oil on board 120 x 120 cm SOLD
#14 SAM FIELD Desert Canaries 2020 75 x 110 cm SOLD
#8 SAM FIELD 6 & 1 2020 oil on board 100 x 120 cm SOLD
#15 SAM FIELD In the End 2020 oil on board 80 x 100 cm SOLD
#10 SAM FIELD Fortune Teller 2020 oil on board 100 x 90 cm SOLD
#16 SAM FIELD View of Rwetyepme (Mt Sonder) 2020 oil on board 50 x 60 cm SOLD
#17 SAM FIELD Idealised Arid Landscape with Crescent Moon and Peacock 2020 oil on board 110 x 120 cm SOLD
#18 SAM FIELD Noon Cloud Central Australia 2020 oil on board 50 x 60 cm SOLD
#20 SAM FIELD Spinifex Pigeon 2020 oil on board 50 x 40 cm SOLD
#21 SAM FIELD Hot Day Bird on Wire 2020 oil and enamel on board 65 x 54 cm SOLD
#22 SAM FIELD Galah and Hawthorn 2020 oil and enamel on board 60 x 50 cm SOLD
#24 SAM FIELD Owl in Tree with Green Flowers 2020 oil and enamel on board 60 x 50 cm SOLD
#25 SAM FIELD Cockatoo Windy Day 2020 oil and enamel on board 60 x 50 cm SOLD
THREE MAJOR PAINTINGS
#1 Black Snake moan oil on canvas 183 x 152 $8,750.00
#2 Gatekeeper 2019 oil on canvas 183 x 152 $8,750.00
#3 Pear Tree Canyon 2019 183 x 152
oil on canvas SOLD
THE HORIZON CATALOGUE
GALLERY VIEWS
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VIEWING ROOM
Use our virtual viewing room to observe Sam Field’s work in context and to scale.
