For the last three years of my art practice I have focused on a singular theme of 1960`s Pop imagery. Theses images not only include the products, graphics and designs of this electric period but also the artists that created it. I like LOUD, wether it is the sound or the colour.
I work across several media including painting, ceramics and wall sculptures created inside shadow boxes. The boxes include as many of the original articles I can source from the period.
In conjunction with Pop my latest paintings tackle the Australian landscape using multi point perspective. This enables me and the viewer to take their eye for a journey through the multiple landscapes depicted in each painting. The colours are bright and layered, but to me the colours are not exaggerated. Australian light changes red rocks to deep blues and green paddocks to yellows and beyond. I am depicting colours that happen at different times of the day, it just happens to be in a single work. I am interested in recording and exploring the rhythm of the landscape that I move through each day. You can visit Ian's website at www.iangunn.net
Ian Gunn, July 2009
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