Garry Currin Exhibitions

Garry Currin

Hints for the Incomplete Traveller

2 Aug - 27 Aug 2014

Exhibition Works

Hints for the Incomplete Traveller
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller (2013/14)
In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars
In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars (2013)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - i
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - i (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - ii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - ii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - iii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - iii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - iv
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - iv (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - v
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - v (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - vi
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - vi (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - vii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - vii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - viii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - viii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - ix
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - ix (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - x
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - x (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xi
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xi (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xiii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xiii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xiv
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xiv (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xv
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xv (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xvi
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xvi (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xvii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xvii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xviii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xviii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xix
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xix (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xx
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xx (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxi
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxi (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxiii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxiii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxiv
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxiv (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxv
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxv (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxvi
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxvi (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxvii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxvii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxviii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxviii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxix
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxix (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxx
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxx (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxi
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxi (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxiii
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxiii (2013/14)
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxiv
Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - xxxiv (2013/14)

Exhibition Text

Drawing on cinematographic traditions, Garry Currin’s paintings suggest sepia-toned photographs or frames from faded 8 mm film. Each small panel reveals a self-contained world where individual stories overlap and time and place are fluid. Currin directs the framing and focus of each ‘shot’, revealing only parts of the over-arching narrative structure.

The individual paintings are small, intense works. They glow within their painted frames and Currin uses bright points of light as visual signposts that draw the eye into and across the surface of the panels. Using a limited palette, he layers tone upon tone which creates a rich depth of hue, all the more striking for the clean lines of the wide borders. More figurative than earlier bodies of work, Currin has populated the stories with people and places that are almost recognisable; they appear as half-forgotten memories which have warped and changed over time.

Accompanying the ‘storyboards’ is a single large work on canvas which showcases Currin’s skill with his medium. From a raised point of view, the viewer looks down onto a shifting landscape that is touched with light. Dominating the foreground are shadowed plains and a solid sweep of hillside; Currin captures simultaneously the solidity of the landscape, and its mutability. The soft ridges of ploughed paddocks draw the eye to the expansive curve of a bay, edged by distant hills.

The exhibition title, Hints for the Incomplete Traveller, encapsulates the experience of Garry Currin’s paintings. The works are suggestive rather than explanatory; Currin tells part of the story but leaves viewers time and space to extend and complete the narrative as it suits them.

exhibition catalogue