Episode 251 - Joe Frost - Between Stations

About this episode

Joe Frost discusses his journey as an Australian artist and his connection to Sydney's urban landscape.

Send us Fan Mail Joe Frost is an Australian artist. He was born in Sydney in 1974 and has exhibited consistently since 1999. His visual thinking evolved in the urban environment and he is, in a sense, a local painter. Sydney’s remnant industrial areas were the subject of his earliest drawings and paintings and he has made extensive series of work in response to the western reaches of Sydney Harbour, the city’s CBD and the green, suburban precinct of Denistone. At times he has worked en plein air but his renditions of place have more usually been filtered through memory in the studio, where his approach to painting is improvisatory and layered. Over 25 years his process of finding-in-paint has come to manifest a great variety of subject matters, including public places, garden spaces, domestic objects and human figures in social situations. Some paintings land upon abstraction and are no less concerned with the matter of recognition: what is presented on the picture plane and what does the mind make of it? In all of Joe Frost's work a process is in play, whereby meaningful visual structure is divined from the flux of experience. Joe is represented by Liverpool Street Gallery…

People in this episode

Hosts: Fiona Verity, Julie Nicholson, Gary Seller

Guest: Joe Frost

Topics covered

• Australian art
• urban environment
• local painting
• industrial areas
• Sydney Harbour
• visual thinking

Keywords

• Joe Frost
• Australian artist
• Sydney
• urban art
• visual thinking
• industrial areas
• Denistone
• Sydney Harbour

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Sydney, Denistone, Sydney Harbour, CBD

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