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A Following Cadence: James Cousins

Past exhibition
11 May - 2 June 2022
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Overview
James Cousins Untitled (Lupin 4), 2022 acrylic and oil on canvas 1400 x 750mm
James Cousins
Untitled (Lupin 4), 2022
acrylic and oil on canvas
1400 x 750mm
These works self-consciously capture acts of trialling and testing, rehearsals of colour, scale and variation.
James Cousins' work is known for combining found lens-based depictions of nature with elements drawn from genealogies of abstract painting. His 2020 exhibition, Song Chain, significantly stripped away the densely packed layers prominent in earlier works. In these pared-back works, Cousins' spray-painted rhythmic bands were given space to oscillate and perform.

A Following Cadence similarly sees the use of banded grounds, but with an additional layer of oil paint in a re-purposing of a wave motif into patterned overlays. Here Lupin refers to a rendered use of a botanical image embedded within the stencilled layer, albeit with likenesses pushed to peripheries of colour and shadow. In this sense, the lupin's faux presence as concealment rhymes with the canvas' reliance on the frame supports. In other included paintings, arrangement or composition are derived through accumulated direct paint application. These works self-consciously capture acts of trialling and testing, rehearsals of colour, scale and variation. The two sets of works could be seen to be coercive in capturing moments of interrelation between input and output, control and unpredictability, malleable expressions that allude to pressures and forces external to the works and their place.
Works
  • James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 4), 2022
    James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 4), 2022
  • James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 14), 2022
    James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 14), 2022
  • James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 13), 2022
    James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 13), 2022
  • James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 11), 2022
    James Cousins, Untitled (Lupin 11), 2022
  • James Cousins, Untitled, 2022
    James Cousins, Untitled, 2022
  • James Cousins, Untitled, 2022
    James Cousins, Untitled, 2022
Installation Views
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 2
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 3
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 9
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 8
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 6
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 5
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 11
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 4
  • Cousins 2022 Installation Image Sam Hartnett Small 1
News
  • James Cousins Artist Talk

    James Cousins Artist Talk

    May 25, 2022
    Please join us at 2pm on Saturday 28 May for an artist talk and Q&A with Dr. Ruth Watson and James Cousins discussing his new...
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