Patrick Larmour works at the intersection of artmaking and physical anthropology presenting paintings, commercially produced objects and machinery stripped of purpose that function together as installations exploring various relationships our selves as bodies have to time and our environments through material cultural remnants.
Objects such as torches, medication, cutlery, gloves, and makeup lay claims on our bodies through touch and our lives through extended use. Often they are objects that are part of life despite ourselves, reflecting necessary and unavoidable needs outside of choice or the fulfillment of desires.
These works both court and undermine the ways in which the objects presented come to us visually. As such his painted works are informed as much by the Constructivist movement of the early 20th Century as by the contemporary flat designs found in catalogues and webpages. He inherits visually some of the user friendly attributes of these sources while removing an easy purpose from the resultingly oblique compositions. Viewers are instead taken into this visual archive of consumable paraphernalia and left to associate their own narrative.
Patrick Larmour is a Canberra based artist. He has been a participant in the CCAS and Megalo Studio Residency Programs and has shown in spaces throughout Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, and Hobart, most recently with Cold Cuts Projects (SYD) and ANCA Gallery (CBR). Patrick has been a member of numerous ARIs and was one of the founders of Tributary Projects in 2017.
Exhibition Details:
OPening June 8th 6-9pm
Exhibition runs: June 6-23rd
