Jack Rowland

Hyper State

A selection of recent realist landscape paintings reimagined through hyper-saturated, unnatural colour schemes. These altered environments explore heightened states of perception, blurring the boundary between the natural and the surreal, inviting the viewer to experience the natural world through an unfamiliar lens.

The Forest Inside Me

An installation in Glass Cube gallery that can be accessed by day and/or viewed at night from the street from dusk to midnight. A surreal meditation representing the peace and wonder that nature effects on the artist and how it is carried into his everyday life. An expression of an internal psychological state. Psychedelic, and both peaceful and eery. Diving deep into the mind through psychedelic exploration, an important part of Jack Rowland's practice, it is often a consolidation of both dark and light. The Forest Inside Me is a meditation of finding peace in the wilderness within.

 

Jack Rowland is a Melbourne-based artist, whose chromatic and saturated landscape paintings aim to offer alternative perceptions of the natural world. Rowland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from RMIT University, Melbourne. He has been exhibiting nationally and internationally including James Makin Gallery, Anna Pappas Gallery, Linden New Art, Rubicon ARI, Blindside Gallery, Flinders Lane Gallery and Kunstraum Tapir (Berlin). Rowland received the Hawkesbury Art Prize Highly Commended Award in 2015 and has also been short listed for a number of prizes such as Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Albany Art Prize and Substation Art Prize.

 

Presented by Frankston Street Art Festival

 

_{Image: Jack Rowland, Desert Trip (detail), oil on linen. Photographed by Yuria Okamura.}