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Joe Frost 2024

JOE FROST

Industrial Grade Apprehensions


27 August - 21 September


Industrial grade apprehensions 

 These paintings evolved together over four years.

Most stem from memories of industrial Sydney at the end of the twentieth century - Rhodes, Homebush Bay, Silverwater and Granville.  

A few are based on Paul Cézanne’s The Sea at L’Estaque (1876, National Gallery, London) a wildly-composed picture of a factory on a bay which reminds me of my local environment of Coogee.

My gravitation to these subjects has yielded an exhibition which is not so much a commentary on industrialisation, but something akin to a chapter from a pictorial autobiography. On degraded lands and waterways, decades ago, I encountered open space, enveloping light and simultaneous qualities of pathos and stimulation that I am still apprehending through painting. 

- Joe Frost, August 2024

JOE FROST
Cumberland / Wallumatta and Wanne
, 2020 - 2024
acrylic on polyester
182.5 x 244.5 cm

JOE FROST
Western Line, reaching (Granville over Clyde), 2021 - 2023
acrylic on polyester
198.5 x 152.5 cm

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Sentinel and field
, 2023
acrylic and polyester
198.5 x 152.5 cm

JOE FROST
Coastal composite 1 (Bay of L’Estaque / Coogee Bay), 2020 - 2024
acrylic on board
100 x 140 cm

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Grey sanctum, 2022 - 2024
acrylic on board
120 x 100 cm

Joe Frost
Coastal composite 2 (Bay of L’Estaque / Coogee Bay), 2020 - 2024
acrylic on polyester
91.5 x 122 cm

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Refinery, 2021 - 2023
acrylic on polyester
91.5 x 122 cm

JOE FROST
Sidelong bay, 2020
acrylic on polyester
76.5 x 102 cm

JOE FROST
Sentinels, low to the ground, 2020 - 2023
acrylic on board
80 x 90 cm

JOE FROST
Coastal composite 3 (Bay of L’Estaque / Coogee Bay), 2021
acrylic on polyester
61 x 76.5 cm