John Archibald’s artistic tribute to man-made structures and natural landscapes feature in his exhibition, Enduring Structures and Forms, which will be displayed at Crows Nest Gallery from Wednesday, November 15 to Sunday, December 10, 2023.
Enduring Structures and Forms celebrates relics dotted across southern Queensland and northern New South Wales and sculptural forms in the landscape, both man-made and natural.
Inspired by old sheds and natural formations as metaphors of persistence and endurance, Archibald looks past their weathered and faded exteriors to highlight their timeless beauty.
His paintings reveal newfound structural dynamics, transformed by the ravages of time and weather.
The use of paint and impasto does more than merely record and represent the subjects, but translates what is seen into dynamic, gestural forms.
