Biograph by Julian Hooper

Julian Hooper
Biograph, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
35 × 25 cm 

Julian Hooper’s images emerge out of reduced configurations of abstract shapes and motifs. His paintings exploit the linear style of his drawings, and introduce elements of collage with pieces of painted canvas adhered to the front and sides of the supports. He often favours a graphic construction over painterly nuance, exploiting the reductive simplicity of drawing, and making room for additions such as the trompe l’oeil painted timber frames, and the physical properties of torn canvas.

Julian has exhibited extensively in Auckland, (New Zealand), Sydney, (Australia) and New York, (USA) since 1990. Most recently he featured in Seeing Moana Oceania at Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki (2019-2020), Turangawaewae: Art and New Zealand, at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2018) and in Necessary Distraction, a survey of contemporary New Zealand painting at the Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki (2016). His work is represented in the Queensland Art Gallery collection, and several major collections throughout New Zealand including the Chartwell and Wallace collections, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Dunedin Public Art Collection, and the University of Auckland collection.

Julian Hooper (b. 1966, Auckland, New Zealand) currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.

With thanks to Julian Hooper and Allan Cooley, Gallery 9, Sydney.

Please note, this work will be shipped from Sydney.