IN LIVING COLOUR

1st - 16th May 2024

Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries, Paddington

Opening Drinks 4th May 3 - 5pm

Art is not about showing what something looks like, but what it feels like.

– Pierre Bonnard

Sydney-based artist David McKay’s recent body of paintings explore the harmony between architecture and nature. After visiting the Pierre Bonnard show at the NGV in Melbourne, McKay has been inspired by his own surroundings, and like Bonnard explores the harmony between the natural world and our desire to fabricate it through design and architecture. Some of his work is directly derived from nature, while other pieces are creatively contrived, offering a unique perspective on the interplay between the natural and the crafted, presenting captivating local landscapes, native gardens and a stunning rendition of the Lobster Bay House nestled amongst the sandstone and angophora of the Central Coast of NSW.

IN LIVING COLOUR is a celebration of colour, light and texture, depicting not only what something looks like but capturing what it feels like.

McKay has recently been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize, the Gallipoli Art Prize and the Gosford Art Prize.

Access the exhibition catalogue here

Maunsell Wickes

at Barry Stern Galleries

19 Glenmore Road, Paddington, NSW, Sydney, Australia, 2021

mw_art@bigpond.net.au

T: 61 2 9331 4676 F: 61 2 9380 8485