STEVEN RENDALL

Fear and Desire Regarding Something Doubtful

3 November - 26 November 2011

Steven Rendall Fear and Desire 2011

Steven Rendall considers our anxious age through his recent sequence of paintings that echo the escalating presence of television screens in our daily routines. The blurred boundaries of public and private spaces, such as retail outlets, railway stations and museums, are regarded and allegorized through the layered relations between still and moving images.

…virtually all movement has been eliminated (2010-2011) depicts a series of screens as a skewed re-imagining of a visit to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s permanent Screen Worlds exhibition. Laced with false colour and overloaded with ambiguous information, Rendall’s accumulation of screens and motifs register an uneasy awareness of our uncertain present.

Steven Rendall was born in Salisbury, England in 1969 and moved to Australia in 2000. Since then he has held numerous exhibitions in Australia and the UK, most recently at Hell Gallery, (Melbourne, 2008) and The Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge, UK, 2009) – he was also a finalist in the 2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, 2010 Redlands Westpac Art Prize and the 2011 Substation Contemporary Art Prize. His work is present in many notable private and public collections in Melbourne and the UK. Recent work has been purchased by the Monash University Museum of Art and the City of Melbourne Art Collection. Steven Rendall is currently a lecturer and PhD canidate in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University.
This is Steven Rendall’s second solo exhibition with John Buckley Gallery.

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