EVENTS
OPEN STUDIO
Open studio show hosted at the artist’s studio in Moorooka, Brisbane on Friday the 13th of December, 2024.
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Event Catalogue
Oil on canvas
Framed
22×16cm
$800
Oil on canvas
Framed
22×16cm
$800
Oil on canvas
Framed
25×20cm
$880
Oil on canvas
Framed
22×16cm
$800
Oil on canvas
Framed
20×20cm
$800
Oil on canvas
Framed
40×20cm
$1,200
Oil on canvas
Framed
24×18cm
$850
Oil on canvas
Framed
25×20cm
$850
Oil on canvas
Framed
30×30cm
$1,200
Oil on canvas
Framed
24×33cm
$1,000
FEED THE BEAST
Conor approaches traditional genres of painting in a contemporary manner as an autodidactic artist. His work is constructed from considered intentional brushstrokes and a desire to capture the essence of his subject, without a compulsion for fideltiy.
‘Art is a beast and it must be fed, I made it these paintings so it wouldn’t eat me instead!’ Feed the beast is a small selection of recent still life paintings by Conor Knight. The works are characterised by the textures, forms and nature of what sustains us rendered with meaty but deliberate strokes of oil paint.
EL AULA
Conor approaches traditional genres of painting in a contemporary manner as an autodidactic artist. He works primarily from life painting “alla prima”, a technique in which the painting is completed in one attempt. This energetic way of painting gives his work an immediacy that imbues his subject with life and movement.
“El Aula” was created over the course of a year, of which the artist spent eight months living and working in Spain. Knight worked as an assistant English teacher in the small city of Villena. This meant many mornings and afternoons in ‘el aula’, the classroom. Knight considers this period of his career as his own learning experience. While each still life could be carefully arranged in his studio, then lay the challenge of capturing the mood and light of streets and cities unfamiliar to him.
ARRANGED
Conor Knight is an emerging Brisbane based artist and has been a finalist in the 2021 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, the 2021 Clayton Utz Art Award and the National Emerging Art Prize 2021.
Arranged is a small series of work exploring the genre of still life with an emphasis on composition. Each subject was captured from life with bold gestural marks in oil paint. The paintings were created through a push and pull of applying and removing marks until the essence of each subject was found.
