Josh Foley - Painting

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In 2011 Josh Foley won The John Glover Prize and in that same year received the runner up award at EMSLA a national Australian still life award. He also won runner up at the Tasmanian Portraiture Awards 2012 and best oil at the TASART awards in 2010. He gained a BCA (Hons) from the Uni of Tasmania in 2004 and has been involved in numerous group exhibitions nationally and had eight solo exhibitions two in Melbourne and the rest in Tasmania. He is currently working on new paintings for exhibition in 2013 and 14.

I’m interested in the efficiency of a gesture and the directness of an idea. With my work, the overarching premise is that it must not contain superfluous elements that would detract from the integrity of the concept. In this way I consider myself a conceptual painter and my paintings aim to extend existing semiotic, aesthetic and philosophical concepts. These ideas find their contemporary context in an age of technological dependence and I believe the continuing practice of painting pictures mediates the experience of our current climate of mass media and information. The things that continue to have relevance for me and which are used as subject matter and inspiration for my creative work are (deep breath): film, digital media, colour theories, psychology (especially perceptual psychology), sexuality, music, theatre, sculpture, philosophy (especially the writing of Jean Baudrillard), literature, theology, Chinese philosophy and opera, the unconscious, dreams, neuroscience, performance, painting, mythology, science and science fiction, the environment (physical, meta-physical, technological) and objects, places and people around me.

Currently, my work celebrates and parodies the advancements in painting made by post-impressionism, modernism and post-modernism while exploring, analysing, and manipulating the conventions of western painting. I depict paint and the various ways of applying it to a substrate like any other phenomenological object and play with both modernist ideas of flatness, contemporary concerns with material, texture, surface and renaissance principles of space; reconciling these elements or contrasting them against each other in intentionally jarring ways. The creations are pseudo-paintings. Paint is by nature and definition a mutable substance and it continually suggests to me analogous forms, materials, movements, cultures, territories and patterns. I aim to embrace and explore these tangents always seeking and sometimes discovering like a scientist further directions to push my work in so that it provides an increasingly stimulating and invigorating experience for the viewer.

Josh Foley, 2013


 

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