Tim Melville is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Johl Dwyer, ‘The Caerulean Blue Room’, to open the 2018 gallery programme.
The exhibition comprises two complementary bodies of work – the first, a group of three 2m-high floor sculptures fabricated in polished stainless steel, oxidised Corten steel and powder-coated aluminium – the second, a dozen 450mm square resin paintings whose glowing, polished translucency allows their wooden stretcher bars to remain visible.
Dwyer’s new resin works have their genesis in the plaster and cedar ‘stain’ paintings for which he is best known. Fascinated by the way we experience colour in the digital age, Dwyer has recently focussed his practice on exploring the differences and similarities between pigment-based and light-based media.
In his 2017 catalogue for ‘Grid / Colour / Plane’ at Malcolm Smith Gallery, curator Julian McKinnon describes Dwyer’s coloured resin works as having pigments that “… do not appear on the surface, as they would with most approaches to painting. Rather they exist within the material and are illuminated by its transparency […] akin to the electronic screen where coloured light is emitted from behind.”
‘The Caerulean Blue Room’ is Johl Dwyer’s fifth solo exhibition at Tim Melville.
Photography: Kallan MacLeod
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View
Johl Dwyer
Demon
2018
resin, pine, acrylic, enamel
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
Johl Dwyer
Clue
2018
resin, pine, acrylic
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Overflow
2018
resin, pine, acrylic
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
PC3.78
2018
resin, pine, acrylic, enamel
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Virginia
2017
resin, pine, acrylic
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View
Johl Dwyer
Hornet Valley
2018
corten steel
2100mm H x 300mm W x 300mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Stages of the Horizon
2018
powder-coated aluminium
2100mm H x 300mm W x 300mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Chains and Mirrors
2018
polished stainless steel
2100mm H x 300mm W x 300mm D
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View
Johl Dwyer
Ed
2018
resin, pine, acrylic, enamel
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Remembrance
2018
resin, pine, acrylic
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Distortion
2018
resin, pine, acrylic, enamel
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
Skyrocket
2018
resin, pine, acrylic, enamel
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
JD-2018-19
2018
resin, pine, acrylic, enamel
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
Johl Dwyer
PC2.18
2018
resin, pine, acrylic
450mm H x 450mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Johl Dwyer
The Caerulean Blue Room
February 2018
Installation View