Artist Name: Marc Rayner

Links:

Insta: raynermarc

Web: Marcrayner.com

STATEMENT:

It’s very difficult to be an Australian artist and not be influenced by the vast and diverse works by the Aboriginal peoples that first inhabited that land. At least subconsciously if not directly. My direction however is primarily influenced by the neo-expressionist movement, which of course is also heavily influenced by various indigenous cultures, naive art, children's art, and general stripping down of classical art themes, gestures and ideas. In this direction, I find a beautiful symmetry with and belonging to Neolithic and tribal art forms.

My visual cues arrive at any time and from anywhere. I have been known to wake up in the middle of the night and start painting as I'm sure many artists do.

 Ideas flow intuitively onto canvas, wood, and into sculptural forms often to protest a dysfunctional and distorted world.

Curator: Daisy