Matt Palmers Little Bird Show flies off the walls!
Matt Palmer's show Little birds opened in Surry Hills at Published Art Last Thurday and sold out in 2 hours! The works are on display until the end of March, so dont forget to duck in and check out these beauties up close.
Little Birds is a new series of portraits by Sydney based New Zealand artist Matt Palmer. This series is a return to Palmer's exploration of portraiture, last explored in a series named “Antiportraits” exhibited in 2007. The old becomes new as Matt Palmer literally brings the past and the present day together. The new becomes old. A blur of past and the present, triggering memories and existing relationships. Exploring the feelings we have with established and more recognisable images, the faces are cast from personal friends and family of the artist, which consciously brings a personal element to what is an archetypal subject. Even though the layers of flowers and insects hark back to the pre-Raphaelite artists like Rossetti and Millais, there is also a thread that seems more influenced by modern photography and artists like Mark Ryden.
