Lot 18

Overall very good condition. No apparent faults to report. Some very light scuffing to the far corners, most notably the upper left corner. Stretched, no additional framing.


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Olsen Gallery, Sydney (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

This is a Shelter, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 30 May-24 June 2018

John Young is one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists, combining innovative painterly practice along with scholarly discourse.

Born in Hong Kong, John Young relocated to Australia with his family in the late 1960s. Young nurtured an interest in Philosophy of Science and Aesthetics but returned to study Painting and Sculpture at the Sydney College of the Arts, completing his studies in 1980.

Spectrumfigure is a series of seven works that Young had been experimenting with for 12 years. Produced by a unique process, the artist collates thousands of photographic images sourced online. Then using an algorithm these images are blended into formless abstracts of colour, which the artist then intricately replicates onto canvas. The result is a resonating conglomeration of the colour spectrum, or 'algorhythm', so vibrant on the canvas that you can almost hear it. (1)

After more than 70 solo exhibitions, including two survey exhibitions, Young continues to innovate his artistic practice.

Hannah Ryan | Art Specialist

(1) Downes, B., John Young: Algorhythms of Colour, Art Collector, issue 84 April-June 2018, accessed online

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