JOE FROST
Industrial Grade Apprehensions
27 August - 21 September
Industrial grade apprehensions
These paintings evolved together over four years.
Most stem from memories of industrial Sydney at the end of the twentieth century - Rhodes, Homebush Bay, Silverwater and Granville.
A few are based on Paul Cézanne’s The Sea at L’Estaque (1876, National Gallery, London) a wildly-composed picture of a factory on a bay which reminds me of my local environment of Coogee.
My gravitation to these subjects has yielded an exhibition which is not so much a commentary on industrialisation, but something akin to a chapter from a pictorial autobiography. On degraded lands and waterways, decades ago, I encountered open space, enveloping light and simultaneous qualities of pathos and stimulation that I am still apprehending through painting.
- Joe Frost, August 2024
JOE FROST
Cumberland / Wallumatta and Wanne, 2020 - 2024
acrylic on polyester
182.5 x 244.5 cm
JOE FROST
Western Line, reaching (Granville over Clyde), 2021 - 2023
acrylic on polyester
198.5 x 152.5 cm
JOE FROST
Sentinel and field, 2023
acrylic and polyester
198.5 x 152.5 cm
JOE FROST
Grey sanctum, 2022 - 2024
acrylic on board
120 x 100 cm
JOE FROST
Coastal composite 3 (Bay of L’Estaque / Coogee Bay), 2021
acrylic on polyester
61 x 76.5 cm