JANIS CLARKE 18 AUGUST - 04 SEPTEMBER THE BACK LANE ‘The Back Lane’ announces the Sydney-based artist’s return to subjects that are both near and familiar. The body of work documents an unpretentious time when our movements were small and our views, modest. Memories from sleepless strolls and sunlit headlands are treated with equal sensitivity, evidencing Clarke’s enthusiasm for the luminous potential of both daylight and its lack. Janis Clarke has long been interested in vision, and the degree to which our glances misinterpret and fantasise. He suggests that painting should do the same, producing unfixed vignettes of remembered scenes. The artist makes particular use of his medium’s raw materials and enjoys the way that colour and brevity can be used to allude to the transient nature of perception. Importantly, his resulting abstractions seek not to codify time and space, but instead try to conjure an embodied encounter with the world around.
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Janis Clarke Dunningham Reserve, 2020 oil on linen 30.5 x 35.5 cm #30890 Framed $1,800
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Janis Clarke The pram trail, 2020 oil on linen 30.5 x 35.5 cm #30899 Framed $1,800
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Janis Clarke Yellow sky, 2020 oil on linen 30.5 x 35.5 cm #30902 Framed $1,800
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Janis Clarke The road, 2020 oil on linen 30.5 x 35.5 cm #30900 Framed $1,800
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Janis Clarke Orange sky, 2020 oil on linen 35.5 x 30.5 cm #30895 Framed $1,800
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Janis Clarke A still afternoon, 2021 oil on linen 40 x 45 cm #30883 Framed $2,250
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Janis Clarke Bowen Island with cloud, 2021 oil on linen 45 x 40 cm #30887 Framed $2,250
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Janis Clarke Boundary Street, 2020 oil on linen 45 x 50 cm #30886 Framed $2,550
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Janis Clarke Afternoon storm, 2021 oil on linen 50 x 45 cm #30884 Framed $2,550
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Janis Clarke Car park, 2021 oil on linen 50 x 45 cm #30888 Framed $2,550
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Janis Clarke Two headlands, 2021 oil on linen 46 x 51 cm #30901 Framed $2,550
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Janis Clarke The path, 2021 oil on linen 56 x 45 cm #30898 Framed $2,650
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Janis Clarke Full moon, 2021 oil on linen 56 x 51 cm #30891 Framed $2,850
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Janis Clarke The path at dusk, 2021 oil on linen 61 x 50 cm #30896 Framed $2,950
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Janis Clarke The path at night, 2021 oil on linen 61 x 50 cm #30897 Framed $2,950
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Janis Clarke 1am, 2021 oil on linen 51 x 61 cm #30882 Framed $2,950
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Janis Clarke Moon and silver sea, 2021 oil on linen 56 x 61 cm #30893 Framed $3,000
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Janis Clarke Night walk, 2021 oil on linen 56 x 66 cm #30894 Framed $3,050
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Janis Clarke Boundary Street 2, 2021 oil on linen 71 x 76 cm #30885 Framed $3,650
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Janis Clarke Looking north, 2021 oil on linen 86 x 76 cm #30892 Framed $4,650
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Janis Clarke The Back Lane (signed catalogue), 2021 Limited edition publication of 25 copies #30986 $50
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