Cave of Bone MAX BERRY
Cave of Bone
Printed in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Cave of Bone’ at the Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia, 2022. This collection of drawings and photographs aims to provide further reading upon the paintings on display. Publishing DeepHouse Print studio Design & Editing Harumi Takagi & Max Berry
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Published in Sydney, Australia 2022, Copyright© Max Berry 2022
The Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay 2022
CAVE OF BONE M. Tolman
Max Berry is a N.T born oil painter, currently practising in regional Queensland. His new show ‘Cave of Bone’ examines the duality of perception, self & rituals of everyday life. His recent work takes a nonlinear step back in time; presenting a series of new work that explores nature and our place in it. I often romanticise Max’s life. After recently relocating to the country, escaping the chaos and opting for the simple and sustainable life, I think about him sitting watching the sunset and its colour - a narrative almost akin to a Go-Betweens song. Sometimes I'll be sitting on the train looking out the window, watching the sky meet the water, making out a washy shoegaze situation, and I'll think to myself “ahh Berry”. Max has an acute awareness for the cyclical nature of this world. Reflecting on its beauty and morbidity through his paintings, creating a mirage and multi-dimensional feedback loop with his surroundings and audience. Constantly re-imagining archetypal landscapes, figures, themes and motives which stem from the real and an imaginary world. Watching Max work first hand, his rituals and his respect for the quiet and reflective mindset- offered me a rare & first hand perspective into his introspective practice. Max Berry challenges the viewer to look at art in a non-literal and interpretive way. “Life and death and back and forth” through the lens of your own personal bone cave. Through the frame of Max Berry. In this life and the next.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY Born 1987 Katherine NT, Australia. Lives and works Sydney, Australia. China Heights Gallery, Sydney Australia Galeria My Name is Lolita Art, Madrid, Spain SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021 Maps, China Heights gallery, Sydney 2021 Good Spell, Galery Auot, Beirut, Lebanon 2021 Energy is Residual, Galeria My Name is Lolita Art, Madrid, Spain 2020 Monument, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill 2020 Landscapes, China Heights, Sydney 2019 Idyll Structures, Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne 2019 Vessel, The Slow, Bali 2018 Seeing Things, China Heights Gallery Sydney 2017 Vehicle, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney 2016 A Return to Slow, China Heights Gallery, Sydney. 2015 Domain, Spectrum Now, Sydney. 2014 The Inwardness of Place, China Heights Gallery, Sydney. 2013 Which Way Home, China Heights Gallery, Sydney 2012 All Things Lost, Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane. 2011 Passenger, Harrison Galleries, Sydney. 2010 A Search For Ground in Higher Places, Oh Really Gallery, Sydney SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Contemporary Landscapes, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Wangaratta 2019 Rude Assembly ‘PartThree’, Burton st Project Space, Sydney 2018 Rude Assembly ‘Part Two’, Campbell st Project Space, Sydney 2018 Rude Assembly ‘Part One’, Campbell st, Sydney 2018 Serve the People ‘Group Show’, Milk Gallery, New York City 2017 Works on Paper, China Heights Gallery, Sydney 2015 Works on Paper, China Heights Gallery, Sydney COLLECTIONS Blacktown City Art Gallery National Library of Australia, Canberra State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Paramount House Hotel, Sydney RESIDENCIES 2019 Bundanon Trust, AUS. 2018 Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, GR. 2018 Nelimarkka Museum, FI. 2015 Cill Rialaig Art Center, IRE.
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