The award-winning Darwin-based artist’s upcoming solo show, To Connect, features works painted in the last year, while much of the country was sectioned off, entering and leaving various stages of lockdown. This, however, barely changed Bonson’s practice, which in large part comes from within, where the artist’s history flows into his immediate surroundings.
“This exhibition is a body of works that have been lovingly created over the past 12 months, a reflection of myself, my feelings, my family, and aspects of the place they were made.
Thick slabs of paint applied generously float on watery surfaces, alluding to my people and totem, the saltwater crocodile. Sections of landscape, closeups, memories of places and times gone past and family. Each painting is a beautiful contemporary work that reflects my visual language, portraying its own personality with the use of texture, movement and colour.”