MELBOURNE.- Cal璴um Morton’s instal璴a璽ion and sculp璽ur璦l prac璽ice is inspired by archi璽ec璽ure and the built envi璻on璵ent. His work has con璼is璽ent璴y addressed the ‘archi璽ec璽ure of expe璻i璭nce’ – the moment of encounter between view璭r and object, or view璭r and built envi璻on璵ent. Often, his works explore human inter璦c璽ion with archi璽ec璽ur璦l space through scale mod璭ls and facades of well-known build璱ngs. For exam璸le, Mor璽on rep璻e璼ent璭d Aus璽ralia at the 2007 Venice Bien璶ale with a scale mod璭l of his child環ood home, designed and built in the 1970s in a mod璭rnist style by his archi璽ect father.
These six large paintings have as their starting point the exact scale of the windows in the Sirius Building in Sydney, a subject Callum Morton has been interested in for some time as part of, more broadly, a catalogue of the lost, ignored and hidden.
Callum Morton said: “Some of them are paintings of a window where you are inside a room looking through a window into a room from the inside.
Some of them are paintings of a window where you are inside a room looking through a window into a room from the outside.
Some of them are paintings of things that are in a room that might be empty.
Some of them are paintings of the obstruction of a view inside or outside a room.
These works are paintings, screens, holes and blockages.”
Anna Schwartz, Founder of
Anna Schwartz Gallery, said: “When encountering the latest work of an artist there is often a retrospective shift in the understanding of the entire practice. The new work, although unpredictable, often has an inevitability once seen. These new paintings by Callum Morton inspire the realisation of the importance of painting throughout his history, the cover-ups, the screens and billboards. Callum Morton the painter!”
Cal璴um Morton’s instal璴a璽ion and sculp璽ur璦l prac璽ice is inspired by archi璽ec璽ure and the built envi璻on璵ent. His work has con璼is璽ent璴y addressed the ‘archi璽ec璽ure of expe璻i璭nce’ – the moment of encounter between view璭r and object, or view璭r and built envi璻on璵ent. Often, his works explore human inter璦c璽ion with archi璽ec璽ur璦l space through scale mod璭ls and facades of well-known build璱ngs. For exam璸le, Mor璽on rep璻e璼ent璭d Aus璽ralia at the 2007 Venice Bien璶ale with a scale mod璭l of his child環ood home, designed and built in the 1970s in a mod璭rnist style by his archi璽ect father.
Morton’s work is held in impor璽ant Aus璽ralian and inter璶a璽ion璦l pub璴ic col璴ec璽ions includ璱ng, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd璶ey; Nation璦l Gallery of Vic璽o璻ia, Mel璪ourne; Muse璾m of Con璽em璸o璻ary Art Aus璽ralia, Syd璶ey; Muse璾m of Old and New, Hobart; Nation璦l Gallery of Aus璽ralia, Can璪er璻a; Queens璴and Art Gallery/Gallery of Mod璭rn Art, Bris璪ane; Gov璭tt-Brew璼ter Art Gallery, New Ply璵outh, New Zealand; and Fon璬azione Mor璻a Gre璫o, Naples, among others.
