Antony Densham

Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand

Artist statement

In regard to recent painting, Densham has developed a visual language that embraces the ephemeral. His paintings are implied and malleable. When contemplating landscape painting in these terms the artist describes a definition of the word Vista as an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events.) ‘Slowing down, relooking, coming back to, helps to internalize a landscape and a painting practice’. These works encapsulate a palimpsest of decisions over time. The aim is to give the viewer a sense of an ever-changing psychological landscape. With respect to the relationship between abstraction and figuration Densham says, ‘The marks are both independent gestures but also acknowledge the brain's tendency to search for representation. I’m looking for this middle ground, to confound the space somehow through the interchange of revealing and concealing.'

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