“This most recent body of work embraces the artist’s love of his home studio at Sydney’s Chinamans Beach, his immediate surroundings and his frequently painted reef and underwater world…” Continue reading
Christian Jon Bonett (b. 1975, Bath, England) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on Gadigal land in Eora/Sydney. Bonett employs installation, ceramic sculpture, painting, and neon elements in his work. His work references iconic Australian cars, road signs, and the urban environments they occupy. Through playful manipulation of context, Bonett provocatively transforms, distorts, and subverts these everyday objects and spaces, challenging our perceptions of these forms to critique and challenge societal constructs of identity, gender, class, consumerism, and environmental concerns.
Bonett holds an MFA (Ceramics) from the National Art School, a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art, UK and a Bachelor of Art Education from UNSW. He has exhibited in Sydney, London, Manchester and Nantes, and has been selected as a finalist in significant art prizes including the KAAF, Mosman, Paddington, Waverley and Wynne.
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10 to 20 February 2024
Christian Bonett, Keely Clarke, Bree Cribbin, Stephanie Eather, Ben Fayle, Samantha Jade, Naomi McKean, Gemma Williams, Eva Ye