JON CATTAPAN
Particle Days
9 April – 14 May 2022

STATION | MELBOURNE

With a vibrant practice spanning over 45 years, Cattapan is recognised as one of Australia’s most- highly respected artists. Atmospheric in nature, the artist’s new suite of large-scale paintings subject colour saturated panoramic city vistas, figurative groupings and data-scape mark making.

Particle Days physicalises that which the artist imagines to ‘float invisibly in the world’, specifically referring to the sharing, duplication, extraction and collection of data and aptly more recently, virus particles. With duality, Cattapan’s conceptual parameters are reflected in a process of scanning and piecing together found and personal imagery that become compositional references for which he paints fields of colour, grid patterns and illuminating flares of light that indicate a presence or energy.

Underpinned by contemporary global culture and recent history, Particle Days negotiates the artist’s heightened consciousness of a ‘turning world’ that negotiates digital spheres, networks of communication, disputed territories and emotional states of being.

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Jon Cattapan
The World is Turning 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
200.0 x 300.0 cm

Ghost-Field_website

Jon Cattapan
Ghost Field 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
200.0 x 300.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
Particle Mist 2021
oil and acrylic on linen
180.0 x 250.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
Double Throw 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
two panels, overall: 140.0 x 280.0 cm

Pink Variance Study

Jon Cattapan
Particle Mist Study 2022
oil on linen
110.0 x 95.0 cm

little-fires

Jon Cattapan
Little Fires 2021
oil and acrylic on linen
2 parts, overall: 140.0 x 280.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
Two Figures Carrying 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
190.0 x 190.0 cm

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Pink Variance Study
Pink Variance Study 2022
oil on linen
2 parts: overall, 85.0 x 100.0 cm

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Two Horizons
Two Horizons 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
165.0 x 195.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
After the Rain 2021
oil and acrylic on linen
168.0 x 195.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
Double Faith 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
two panels, overall: 140.0 x 280.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
Isolation Row 2021
oil and acrylic on linen
three panels, overall: 100.0 x 150.0 cm

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Jon Cattapan
Double Stone 2022
oil and acrylic on linen
two parts, overall: 140.0 x 280.0 cm

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