Mitchell Cheesman: Mud-Soup Bouquets For The Weeping Wanderers’

Mitchell Cheesman

Mud-Soup Bouquets for the Weeping Wanderers

28 January – 20 February 2022

Mitchell Cheesman

Mud-Soup Bouquets for the Weeping Wanderers

My paintings are a disguise that can only be seen for their true veins when closely examined in the flesh.

This collection of recent work focuses on the traditional ‘still life’ subject and my personal fascination that lays within the misconception of the bouquets themselves. The process that I indulge myself in while painting contains many immediate decisions established entirely from the sprout of feeling. The feeling of the bouquet on the studio floor, the feeling of manipulating the impasto oil paint across the raw canvas, the feeling of the sounds I have playing in the studio at the time. The works continue to accommodate that emotion which is exhibited strongly through the use of heavily applied/scraped off/reapplied oil paint, fast-paced graphite gestures and flicks and drips of enamel paint over days, weeks and months of coming back to the same piece with different feelings.

I personally like to imagine the bouquets in different settings, whether it be ‘The Lieutenant’s Room’ or ‘The Poet’s Wall-Peeling Desk’. Each of us carry different feelings to the next person down the alley, and I have attempted to depict this fact by the means of exaggerating a bouquet’s chaotic formation, representing that feeling in an alternative life form to humanity.

Mitchell Cheesman

Circus Mind in Spring

Mixed Media on Canvas

270cm x 320cm Diptych

$18,000

The Poet's Wall-Peeling Desk

Mixed Media on Canvas

192.5cm x 176cm Framed

SOLD

Last Night in Greenwich Village

Mixed Media on Canvas

180cm x 160.5cm

SOLD

Untitled (Springtime again S.R)

Oil and Graphite on Canvas 170cm x 148cm SOLD

Strung Out on Turkish Tapestry

on Canvas

Plastic, Marble and Linen

Oil on Canvas

122.5cm x 102.5cm Framed

Fallen

121cm

Coloured Mud around Breakfast Time

Oil and Graphite on Canvas 108cm x 86.5cm Framed

Coal Mining Literature (Listening to Bebop) (I)

Oil and Graphite on Canvas 105cm x 83.5cm

SOLD

Coal Mining Literature (Listening to Bebop) (II)

Oil and Graphite on Canvas 105cm x 83.5cm

SOLD

Coal Mining Literature (Listening to Bebop) (III)

Oil and Graphite on Canvas 105cm x 83.5cm

SOLD

Double Ended Day-Bed for Wendy & Brett Oil on Canvas 100cm x 83.5cm SOLD

The Crying Cabinet & The Non-Polished Drawers

Oil and Graphite on Canvas 103cm x 79cm Framed

100cm

SOLD

Ballad to George Eastman

Mixed Media on Canvas

x 80cm

Cough Syrup in the Early Morning Oil and Graphite on Canvas 100.5cm x 76cm

Mud-Soup Bouquets for the Weeping Wanderers Oil and Jute Collage on Canvas 82.5cm x 68cm Framed SOLD

I closed the gate on the way in Oil on Canvas mounted on Jute 80cm x 65cm

SOLD

The Lieutenants Room

Oil and Enamel on Canvas 82.5cm x 63cm

SOLD

Red Ridge Solace (1/4)

Oil,

Red Ridge Solace (2/4)

Red Ridge Solace (3/4)

Red Ridge Solace (4/4)

Oil,

Introducing Mitchell Cheesman

In a neat and precisely manicured corner of the Sunshine Coast – behind a contemporary and sleek garage door – you will find an explosion of creativity. A delicious chaos-filled space with found objects, oozing oils , bunches of flowers and a very cool young man presenting unique, flamboyant, contemporary, artworks.

Mitchell Cheesman is at the beginning of his career and the future looks bright. With thoughtfulness and a thirst for knowledge, he immerses himself in the arts, music, literacy and resonating artistic practices which seem unstoppable at this juncture in his life. His favourite artists are his heroes, his taste in music is eclectic and wide, all entwining to play their part in his own creative outflow.

Within the abstract compositions, do you recognise the whole posy or the single bloom? In the more figurative work, you may identify subjects from a fun and bygone era. Every painting has a narrative with titles that are abstract, curious but bold and maybe a little poignant. Prose that comes to mind in a split second once the work is completed.

As the garage door slowly slides down and the quietness and normality of the neighbourhood surrounds you in the glaring sunlight of the Sunshine Coast, one can hardly believe the magical world of Mitchell Cheesman ever existed – left feeling it could all have been a dream.

To own a Mitchell Cheesman is to have a painting, a sculpture, a story and even music playing lightly somewhere in the distance.

Being an observer of this rich and wonderful journey is a privilege, and at the gallery, we are enthusiastically introducing our clients of all ages and tastes to the eclectic and rich works of Mitchell Cheesman. He may be self-taught but the authenticity and certainty in which he explores his practice is applaudable.

Karen Beardsley Gallery Director

Laguna