Chalk Horse is currently hosting a solo exhibition by Jasper Knight, titled "Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads".The exhibition features a major new work by Jasper Knight, titled 'Swanson Dock'. This piece of art is the largest work on canvas to date and depicts the International shipping facility Swanson Dock." Knight has always worked on the limit of figuration, finding subjects such as bridges, scaffolds, and wharves that when simplified in his signature style, recall boldly the experiments of high modernism...The work on display reflects of a bustling shipping container terminal on the Yarra River in Melbourne and it’s red and yellow dockside gantry cranes make for a bold architectural subject. The exhibition also includes two mixed media collage studies for the major work. These collage works continue Knight’s interest in the relationship between material and subject through the use of materials like plywood and aluminium. 'Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads' is a show about color, scale and surface while continuing the artists celebration of the industrial landscape," says the gallery.Born in December 1978, Sydney, Jasper Knight is an Australian artist and the brother of writer and presenter Dominic Knight, and grandson of Sir Harold Knight (economist). Knight has been a finalist six times in the Archibald Prize from 2005–07, and again in 2009, 2010 and 2013 with portraits were of Richard Gill, Bob Carr, his grandfather Sir Harold Knight, Bill Wright AM, and Adam Cullen respectively, aside from himself. He has been a finalist in the 2005, 2006, 2011 and 2012 Wynne Prize for landscape painting, and the 2013 and 2015 Sir John Sulman Prize. He won the Mosman Art Prize in 2008. In 2012, Knight was a finalist for the first time in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of Australian painter Jeffrey Smart and in 2014 with a portrait of David Griggs. A portrait of him by Sarah Hendy was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize. Knight is the Co-Director of Chalk Horse gallery in Darlinghurst, Ecosse Gallery in Exeter NSW and Future Perfect Gallery at Gillman Barracks in Singapore.The exhibition will be on view through July 7, 2018, at Chalk Horse, 301A, Level 3, 77-83 William Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2010. For details visit: www.chalkhorse.com.auClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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