Joseph Christie Evans

These were the paintings I worked with after finishing my post-grad. I continued with a bit of figurative and realism on board to continue with physical extensions of online activity, jokes and memes - continuing it into contemporary Iphone and weekend photography and how that relates to painting. A European holiday in 2022 definitely influenced a lot of what i made. I was looking at Renaissance and Baroque painters and the muted colours they used. Seeing Venice Biennale with a few hundred artists all kind of exploring a theme was a lot of it too, in seeing each country and where they were at with their thinking. I was thinking about Jeffrey Smart and Franz Gertsch for their urban landscape paintings and depictions of youth culture, and also Marcel Duchamp for his diversions in painting. I also started looking at Julie Fragar, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans (his more recent work) towards the last paintings I was doing in 2023.