Under Stilts
13 – 30 April 2023
Mitchell Cheesman
Under Stilts
The more observant you become, the more you gather in oil chum.
Under Stilts is a creak in the unstable torso of wooden-rush, that hangs over my painting head from the cries of dawn to the purples of pastel dusk.
It expands my understanding of what it means to be a painter & how very essential a mark can become in capturing a point in one’s life, suggesting a studio transition may behold the greatest impact, the story we didn’t always choose, however, the story we become.
In this humid pace of life, at one, with the lizards, the wasps, the spiders and the scruffys who accompany me with the most astonishing appearances in the studio, triggering an unknown buzz that lays within my own philosophy, impatiently waiting to be discovered in a built up formation amongst the vertical surface that stands in front of me.
The unproportional, lob-siding of all my studio, its surroundings & the weather thrown at me is where my subconscious deeds discover self performance, its an obscure bodily control that may be with very few others, that I personally am convinced to be, the closest experience to dreaming, however similarly to that state of mind, nightmares do take place as well.
The sketches take place in the early morning, although it’s hardly recognisable as the climate crawls over my skin. The light alternates theatrically as the charcoal or ink-soaked rose paces up and down and across the dust coated paper. And after not long transitioning to oil.
This movement of intense oil build up becomes a text-less diary entry of poetic mirage, identifying as the uncategorised sentiment, considering studio transition and melancholic temperaments, to only then, focus on the form of life when moving still.
The joy filled & poignancy spilled paintings of this show were always destined to become the elusive epiphany.
Mitchell Cheesman (24 March 2023)
Oil
190cm
150cm SOLD
Under Stilts in Reverse (II)
on Canvas
x
Goodbye & Good Morning
Oil on Italian Cotton
160cm x 153.5cm
SOLD
Companionship
Oil and Enamel on Italian Cotton
140cm x 124cm
SOLD
In Vision of Fragments Oil and Enamel on Italian Cotton 140cm x 124cm SOLD
The Sky Of The Sky Of A Tree
(E.E. Cummings)
and Acrylic on Canvas
100cm
And
Called Life
Oil, Oil Pastel
120cm x
SOLD
The Sea’s Gatherings (Ayers)
Oil, Enamel and Indian Ink on Italian Cotton 108cm x 91.5cm
SOLD
Star Melted Candle Of Glass (II)
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 98cm x 92cm
$3,000
Star Melted Candle Of Glass (III)
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 98cm x 92cm
SOLD
Helmholtzkeiz
Oil and Enamel on Canvas
100cm x 90cm
SOLD
Wooden
Stool, Shoe & Vine
and Oil Pastel on Canvas 110cm x 80.5cm
Oil
SOLD
Mind Combines Thoughts, Thoughts Combine A Rhyme Mixed Media on Italian Cotton 100cm x 80cm
SOLD
$2,600
The Flute Of Alternation Mixed Media on Italian Cotton 100cm x 80cm
$2,300
The Wax Sculptures (and the wind) Oil and Enamel on Canvas 70cm x 98cm Diptych
The Manuscript For Black Bottle Oil, Graphite and Enamel on Canvas 81cm x 70cm
$2,200
The Place I Spend My Days Oil on Canvas 80cm x 68cm SOLD
In This Chair (but anyone can sit there) Mixed Media on Canvas 80.5cm x 65cm
SOLD
Cleopatra’s Sisters Sing The Sky Of Strings (II) Oil on Canvas 80cm x 65cm
SOLD
Bury The Easel Oil on Canvas 80cm x 64.5cm
SOLD
Landscape Of Something Holy Oil on Canvas 75.5cm x 64cm SOLD
Ancora Ikebana
Oil on Canvas 75cm x 64cm
SOLD
And the Vase from Lazarus Oil and Enamel on Existing Board and Frame 68cm x 49cm (painting) 80cm x 59cm (Framed) SOLD
Clutter With Nowhere To Go (except exactly where it stands)
Oil and Enamel on Canvas 60cm x 50cm SOLD
Upside-Down Sky
on Canvas
x 46cm SOLD
The
Oil
65cm
Oil
Babel In Disarray
48cm
SOLD
and Enamel on Italian Cotton
x 42.5cm
One Among Non Oil and Enamel on Italian Cotton 43cm x 43cm SOLD
Under Stilts
The year of change for Mitchell Cheesman has culminated in an extraordinarily stunning exhibition “Under Stilts”
With travels afar, literary indulgences, feasts for the eyes and an abundance of all things sensory. The artistic response was waiting to be witnessed. Painting away from the stark bright lights of suburbia to lush green tropical surroundings, nestled under a quintessential Queenslander, literally “Under Stilts,” the magic begins…
Luscious, oozing impastos are recognisable in an instance. With subtle nuances in colour and texture, the florals have melted into the surroundings, the backgrounds become the forefronts. Exciting architectural elements with geometrical edges juxtapose the rounded swathes of oils. Soft, edgy, delicious and bold, relatable and immersible. Less obvious, but so, so much more.
Karen Beardsley Gallery Director
The G Contemporary 6/32 Hastings Street Laguna on Hastings Noosa Heads QLD 4567 art@thegcontemporary.com www.thegcontemporary.com Directors Karen Beardsley +61 400 716 553 Steve Beardsley +61 400 716 526 @thegcontemporary