Harry Hummerston's art practice over the past 30 years has continued to investigate popular culture.
His most recent works employ the intriguing method of reverse painting on sheets of acrylic. He appropriates images from a vast range of genres, from Japanese animation, to Star Wars, to Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl and juxtaposes them with girls on swings, hanging men, sailing ships and party balloons. Together the images tell new stories and provoke new meanings and connections from the layered and stylised forms. Many images are repeated or mirrored, giving rise to the title of the show, Double Vision, which also refers to the many ways we can interpret our world and it’s layers of meaning.
Harry stated, "following on from my previous exhibition Unrealised, Double Vision explores the notion that we never really fully understand what we see. Utilising images sourced from disparate sources and genres and employing strategies such as mirroring, inversion and repetition my work places the viewer in a position of uncertainty. Thus challenging the conventional in all its forms."
Often it is the jarring juxtaposition of images that challenge, and unnerve, the viewer. Pictured here a Manga creature is superimposed on silhouettes of hanging men and floating party balloons. The most recent works in this series are intriguing, they feature a loosening of his patterns and contain splatterings of paint. CAT features earth moving equipment against a background of hazard orange paint runs that virtually obscure the happy bird forms beneath.
Harry's graphic painting style is drawn from his background as a master print-maker, and his fascination for form and shape from his experience as a sculptor. This is his seventeenth solo exhibition and his works can be found in over 45 major collections including the Art Gallery of WA, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Thailand, Wesfarmers, Kerry Stokes, Holmes a Court and the University of WA. A catalogue is available on request.
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