An exhibition of new works at Despard Gallery, Tasmania
In his second solo exhibition with Despard Gallery, Andree presents a new series of his ethereal landscape paintings, each delicately executed through subtle brush strokes, soft gradients and low-key palette. Through multiple layers of transparent glazes, each painting captures the hazy threshold where the sky, land and water converge, using the natural fluidity of paint to reflect the connecting flow between atmosphere and water.
With an intuitive and minimal approach to painting that almost slips into abstraction, each composition providing space for deeper reflection. As such, Andree shifts emphasis away from how the landscape looks, to how light and weather can shape its experience Overall, Andree reveals how the landscape and painting are not isolated concerns but are in fact closely aligned in helping to guide personal understanding. As such, Andree invites us to become part this unique dialogue with the landscape, each composition born from a place of deep respect, care and quiet optimism.
The river itself exists as a living archive and I remain inherently aware that it is a place where forgotten histories and present moments exist simultaneously beneath the same changing light. As such, these paintings seek to use memory and observation as tools to articulate the psychological weight of this place. In this body of new paintings based on timtumili minanya / River Derwent, the waterway is treated not merely as a geographic subject, but as a site where multiple histories converge at once and a proposition for the future. – Joshua Andree
Joshua Andree is an early career artist living and working in Nipaluna/Hobart. Since graduating from the University of Tasmania in 2015, Andree has participated in group and solo exhibitions nationally. He has been selected as a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the RACT portrait Prize (2015 & 2019), the Henry Jones Art Prize (2018 & 2023), the Glover Prize (2021) and TIDAL (2022). In 2023, Andree was selected as a finalist in the prestigious Hadley’s Art Prize receiving both an honourable mention, as well as being awarded the Packing Room Prize and the Peoples’ Choice. Andree’s paintings are held in private collections both nationally and internationally.
Exhibition open to view in person and in full online from Wednesday 23 September
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