TRENTON GARRATT

Starkwhite is pleased to present Absorption and Reflection by Trenton Garratt from 15 June to 13 July 2013.

Since 2009 Garratt has been developing an ongoing series of paintings with a sunrise over landscape as a dominant theme. He says: “I'm interested point-and-shoot digital photography as a social activity and its influence on representing landscape. The spectacle of a sunrise, or light dappled landscapes preserved in binary code and presented red green and blue pixels is the source of the imagery for my paintings - the kind of image that functions as a shared experience found in personal photo albums shared on Facebook, Flickr and Google or beautiful background images for your desktop computer and mobile phone's home screen. Despite the clichéd schmaltz, this kind of imagery is deeply inter-subjective and has a self-sustaining bond with sincereness.”

In this exhibition Garratt continues the theme of nature and light. Absorption and Reflection is based on paintings of idyllic, light dappled seascapes and sees the artist contemplating the seaside as a location for sanctuary and sojourn.

Trenton Garratt graduated MFA (2008) University of Auckland and was the recipient of the Henrietta and Lola an Tunbridge Scholarship. Recent group exhibitions include: The Obstinate Object, City Gallery Wellington (2012) curated by Aaron Lister and Abby Cunane; Running on Pebbles at the Snake Pit, Auckland (2012), curated by Allan Smith; I could of sworn I, Daire Sanat Istanbul (2010) and Grimm Museum, Berlin (2011); and Knowing You, Knowing Me, Artspace, Auckland (2010), curated by Emma Bugden.