Greg Ades forthcoming exhibition, Hope To Build A House has been inspired and is based on his visit with fellow artists to the South Australian desert and Woomera.
Greg compares his visit to the desert with the city -
'there was this threat of the endless rather than the confined'.
Dwelling [2001] and Less [2000] explored the degradation and disorganization of the urban landscape and the claustrophobia of designer living...the threat of the confined.
Greg has captured the mysterious plains of the desert in a fashion that is disconcerting.
"the urbane meets the outback. The results are powerful indeed, cool yet connected with land..." *Ashley Crawford for Art and Australia, April 2003
"easily swing from comedy to something dangerous. ...They have the sort of sharp delineation and graphic quality of John Brack's illustrative style...the images, the use of cartoon like colour and the distortion makes the viewer uncomfortable but...we get to see just how peculiar our comfort zone
is" *Edward Colless, Australian Art Collector Dec 2002
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