Roy Alfred Close - Going Everywhere, Every Suburb 1 & 2

Roy Close

Going Everywhere, Every Suburb 1  2020

Going Everywhere, Every Suburb 2  2020

acrylic on canvas

45.5 x 30 cm and 35.5 x 27 cm

[Each section represents] the suburbs in a big city all coming together and touching. Mt Gravatt, Garden City, Greenslopes, Cleveland, all of them.

About the artist:

Roy Close is a Turrbal, Butchulla, Jirrbal and South Sea Islander artist living and working on Jagera land. At the age of 17 he began to paint, inspired by the abstract art and aboriginal art he was introduced to by friends and family.

He says:

“Art give me something to do, my art relaxes me. I give to people through my artwork.”

Roy translates his ideas about the world around him into art, with the concept of connectedness driving his compositions.

The multicoloured segments that often make up Roy’s work represent many things. Sometimes, he says, ‘they are all suburbs of Brisbane, or all the Aboriginal tribes’ as if viewed on a colour coded map. Sometimes they are the days of the year, all coming together in one place as one ongoing memory.

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