15 August - 2 September 2023
New Works Joseph Daws
New Works
Joseph Daws
New Works 2023 presents a combination of practice by Joseph Daws, with a debut into sculptural pieces. The exhibition includes new paintings that continue Daws’ interest in landscape and still-life, presented alongside an abstract body of work which examines pixelated imagery and digital processes. The new sculptures are an extension of Daws recent Resolution paintings, where the artist sampled pixels from digital images of his work, enlarged the grid, and recreated the correlating hues in oil paint. Of this process, Daws states:
“I was interested in how the pixels operate as a pictorial space on this scale, and how the viewer reads this space. There is a minimalist, optical quality to them at times, and theysometimesreadmoreorlesssoabstractedfromactual associations with the real world.”
Daws’ plywood sculptures leave the nature of the substrate unhidden, highlighting a tensity within their materiality:
“It creates a tension between the ‘boxiness’ of the work and any illusional/pictorial space it presents—akin to the white primer of an unfinished painting disrupting the pictorial plane.”
Together, this new body of work integrates a continuous thread of practice and shares insight into the artist’s iterative processes, combining a physical and digital studio. The diversity in styles throughout this exhibition highlight a multitude of compositional play and a conversation between two-dimensional and three-dimensional perspectives.
Joseph Daws, Reesville, 2019, Oil on canvas, 51 x 62 cm Joseph Daws, Passage, 2023, Oil on canvas, 91 x 76 cm
Reesville 2019
Oil on canvas
100 x 120 cm
$5,800
Passage 2023
Oil on canvas
91 x 76 cm
$3,200
Coonowirn I
2023
Oil on canvas
76 x 91 cm
$2,500
Still Life with Cloth and Lemons
2023
Oil on canvas
54 x 63 cm
$3,200
Coonowirn II
2023
Oil on canvas
51 x 62 cm
$2,400
Mt Beerwah 2023
Oil on canvas
51 x 62 cm
$2,400
Block 1
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Block 2
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Block 3
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Block 4
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Block 5
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Block 6
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Block 7
2023
Oil on plywood
27.5 x 12.5 x 10 cm
$1,200
Study Flower
2023
Oil on canvas
21 x 31 cm
$700
Study Oranges
2023
21 x 31 cm
$700
Oil on canvas
Jan Manton Gallery
54 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005
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Cover image: Joseph Daws, Coonowirn II, 2023, Oil on canvas, 51 x 62 cm.
All image credits: Carl Warner
Gallery Director
Jan Manton
Gallery Manager Embie Tan Aren
Gallery Assistant Noam O’Reilly
Gallery Intern Isabella Wright