Darrren Wardle

Indemnity, 2005
Oil and acrylic on linen
198 x 305 cm

Wardle’s meticulous process starts with photographs that he then augments digitally with a combination of prints and transparencies, projecting and copying to create seamless, hyper-real works that are painted with a fine brush, not airbrushed as they might appear. Wardle himself states that, ‘with new technologies, economic contingencies and human activity perpetually amending and expanding suburban structure, [my work] attempts to trace the impossibility of apprehending the fluidity of suburbia in a static painted image and tests the limits between painting and digital technology.’

© the artist. Wardle is represented by Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne and Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney.