A set of works reflecting on modern life by artist Kingston Poplar. Born in Australia however raised within the UK, Poplar not too long ago relocated to Australia after 4 years dwelling on a distant Caribbean island. His new sequence of oil work portrays the ultimate interval of his life on the island in addition to autobiographical moments that open into broader reflections on modern existence. Merging parts each actual and imagined, extraordinary and extraordinary, the fragmented nature of Poplar’s work additionally speaks to the overstimulation of an image-saturated world. Collectively they provide a meditation on what it means to exist in a digital age stuffed with disconnection and distraction, with every of us current nearly as our personal distant island:
“Surreal layered compositions discover the human situation within the fashionable world by a lens that’s each private and common. Utilizing the island as metaphor for the person, these works distort house and kind to replicate the disorienting tempo of life within the consideration economic system.”
Poplar’s solo debut, “Every in Ourselves an Island,” opens at Brunswick Avenue Gallery on January twenty fourth.
