Matt Coyle – The Shades: New Drawings and Prints
Gallery 1 (Downstairs)
Matt Coyle’s signature use of black pen on white paper has evolved over many years, allowing him to explore the possibilities of line and the dramatic effects of light and shadow. Imbuing his images with dense pictorial narratives of disturbing and macabre scenes, he brings out what is hidden, murky or indistinct within the shadows, making The Shades horrifying yet strangely absorbing.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
Anna Pappas Gallery
in
Melbourne
precinct,
Victoria,
Australia.
From
Wednesday 13 October 2010 to Saturday 13 November 2010
Published by anonymous on Wednesday 06 October 2010.
Contact the publisher.
The settings for these dramatic moments come from Coyle’s own surrounds: his house, his garden, his neighbourhood and Tasmanian urban landscapes in which he lives. Coyle photographs these settings and draws from the photographs, while generating his narratives from the repository of horror film themes and, most importantly, his own dreams. His impeccable draughtsmanship gives these works a cinematic aura that is both aesthetically fascinating and intensely bewitching, while the faceless characters and unknown events that lurk here give rise to infinite unfolding possibilities of past, present and future dialogue between the work and the viewer.
