M2 Gallery, Surry Hills

M2 Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney

Artist; Morgan Stokes, ‘Homophone’ exhibition (December 3-8, 2020)

Near Amok Island on Sophia Street, Little Collins Street and Lacey Street, Sophi Odling on Fanny Place, Captain Earwax on Nickson Street, Reubszz and Crisp on Hutchinson Street and Fitzroy Lane, Silly Pear on Crown Street, Mitchell Guerin on Kendall Lane

“Despite its appearance, ‘Homphone’ is a rumination on the virtual world. These works are a response to our escalating entrapment within our screens, a recreation of the endless stream of digital images we endure. In a digital-first world, image is mundane.

“Ironically the JPGs, which will become the end product in the lifecycle of the works, will be the way the works will be largely viewed and remembered. Any nuance or corporeality will be abolished when shifted online, completing the full circle from digital conception to painterly work back to virtuality.

“By exploring perception through the physical and the tactile in a world of digital illusion, ‘Homophone’ is a quietly duplicitous reflection on a year characterised by a shared global anxiety and the increasingly critical technology that has mediated us throughout.”

Excerpts from ‘Homophone’ Statement

11011; Oil on canvas – Morgan Stokes, ‘Homophone’

Release; Hessian, bleach – Morgan Stokes, ‘Homophone’

00100; Oil on canvas – Morgan Stokes, ‘Homophone’

Transfer; Hessian, bleach – Morgan Stokes, ‘Homophone’

Space; Oil, acrylic, bleach, conte pastel on canvas – Morgan Stokes, ‘Homophone’