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Jonny Niesche
Australia
Jonny Niesche explores abstraction in a way perhaps best described as a meeting of East and West coast, where sleek minimalism is fused with the ethereal and atmospheric. His works are at once refined and machine-like, whilst enveloping the viewer in total sensory stimulation via the aid of vivid colours and illusion — formal and deceptive. Working primarily across painting and sculpture, both bodies of work are highly seductive, as their iridescent surfaces hum and shimmer with pigment. Here colour floats above the surface, yet is grounded by the hard-edges of mirrored materials framing each colour field. Whether referencing the makeup tones of Debbie Harry or David Bowie, the palate of Bottega Veneta’s summer collection, the forms of structures and transportation from early sci-fi films, or directly referencing the artistic canon that came before him, his concepts are as layered as his works’ colour spectrum.