JON CATTAPAN
Fortress Falling
5 July – 2 August 2025

STATION | MELBOURNE

STATION is delighted to present Fortress Falling, Jon Cattapan’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Known for his layered urban landscapes and explorations of data, surveillance, and memory, Cattapan’s paintings traverse between connection and isolation, visibility and concealment. His distinctive visual language is created from veils of luminous colour, schematic forms, and floating architectures that balance between figuration and abstraction.

While echoes of his earlier cartographic motifs remain, the works in Fortress Falling are imbued with a more enigmatic, unmoored energy. Familiar structures begin to tilt, crumble, or dissolve; once-anchored forms drift or splinter across the picture plane.

Cattapan’s practice has always engaged with the pulse of contemporary life, but in Fortress Falling, the artist brings forth markings and forms that attest through the language of paint to the tenor of the times. These paintings invite us to linger in the shifting space between restraint and release, where the outlines of what we know begin to blur, and new, uncertain possibilities emerge.

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Installation Views

Artworks

Jon Cattapan
Fortress Falling 2025
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
110.0 × 90.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
Untitled (Trap Study Red) 2024
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
60.0 × 45.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
The Group Dissolves 2024
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
140.0 × 180.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
Unknown Geographies V2 2024-25
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
195.0 × 330.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
Untitled (Unfolding) 2025
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
195.0 × 170.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
Untitled (Trap Study) 2025
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
60.0 × 45.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
Horizon Trap V2 2024-25
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
165.0 × 195.0 cm

Jon Cattapan
Untitled (Containment Forms Study) 2025
oil and acrylic on Belgian linen
50.0 × 100.0 cm