Charles Cooper returns to Annandale for the first time since the artist's exhibition and book launch 'On Location', held in 2022

In his latest series, Cooper fixates on the continual cycle of fracture and repair experienced quite literally by the urban landscape. The cracks along city roads and their remedial tarlines indicate a tension between our efforts to impose order and nature's responsive resistance

Treating the road as a living entity, a considered viewing quickly reveals that Cooper's grey and red expanses are teaming with colour and pulsing with texture. With meticulous technical skill and a heartfelt appreciation for his surroundings, Cooper draws you in, but demands a wider scope of appreciation. As Joe Frost writes, "Cooper plants the seed of perception and lets the viewer's mind do the rest, bearing the near view in mind as they move back to see the painting from afar, projecting the aura of the painted surface in the space around. In this way, paintings that could have been mere representations of a quotidian object become subtly modulated abstractions."
– Andrew Christie 2025

Opening night: Wednesday 17 September 6:30pm
Exhibition dates: 17 September – 18 October

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