Title

Joel Crosswell: Anonymous souls..

Venues

Bett Gallery. (9 March 2018 – 2018)

Date

(2018)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (TAS).

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Anonymous Souls stems from Crosswell’s long time curiosity of the altered state. In his works on paper, he meanders from his own subconscious and the reoccurring patterns that also exist within the shadow archetype. Crosswell's process itself is spontaneous and unpredictable. The works are a manifestation of predominantly the unknown, apparitions who seem to naturally speak to another, gently ricocheting off like constantly moving glimmers in a world on the borderline of real and psychedelic. Joel Crosswell lives and works in Hobart and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania in 2008. Joel Crosswell uses biographical stories and events in his work to connect with themes relating to spirituality, existence and the human condition. Using drawing, painting and sculpture, Crosswell incorporates strange, comic and sometimes dark figurative characters to obscure and abstract biographical events. Since graduating he has exhibited locally and interstate in solo and group exhibitions and has won awards and residencies for his art. Most recently he was the winner of the 2014 Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award and the 2015 recipient of a two month studio residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. [Bett Gallery]