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'Christopher McClelland’s oil paintings shimmer and glow, but rather than each work being a comfortable evocation of place, McClelland disrupts his scenes with surreal or discordant inclusions. In his recent seascape paintings, Indian Ocean Painting series, leaves from deciduous European trees drift above the turbulent, glassy waves. Autumnal colours contrast with deep, ocean greens and blues to emphasise that the leaves exist as markers of things out of place. This is McClelland’s acknowledgement that the recent arrival of European/coloniser cultures only touch lightly upon the history of this continent in comparison to Indigenous Australians’ ongoing occupation that reaches back deep in time’.
Lee Kinsella, 2019. Special Projects Curator at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia. Click on images to enlarge |
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