Steve Cox

Looking Back

1 - 24 July 2010

Since the 70’s, Australian painter Steve Cox has presented us with beautiful, frightening and often confronting images. His painterly portrayals of murderers, rave and drug culture, witches and warlocks, revel in the psychosis and extremities of the human condition.

After overcoming a recent illness and faced with his own mortality, Cox looked back over the many subjects and characters that have populated his paintings and realized that there was more work to be done; as in the age old maxim used by Agatha Christie, Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill and even Dolly Parton, Cox realized he had Unfinished Business.

Back in the studio, private obsessions have been revisited with a fresh perspective; subjects first encountered thirty years ago have been reignited, revisiting the mid-70s glam rock kids, to Victorian chimney sweeps, to 18th century fops, to medieval witch trials.  If you are game enough to steal a furtive backwards glance you may also encounter Myra Hindley’s dream, Australian murderer Paul Luckman or the nostalgic pop figure of Ziggy Stardust.

In this exhibition Cox presents a series of provocative paintings that look back through aspects of the artists oeuvre and, in turn, at real life events and those of art history.

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