Still Life II - a butterfly ponders its prickly disposition

From $600.00 AUD

2 of 3 available

Archival Print Poly-Cotton Canvas

Photograph of butterfly, flowers, on gold turned timber stand

Linked with a ritualistic connection to the natural world, Joseph’s Still Life Polyptych examines how the ideologies of old belief systems transgress modern forms, celebrating life through the lens of death. His collages of curiosities and sculptural works use such things as preserved insects and ossified animal remains found in various natural settings throughout his travels around Australia, telling stories and paying homage to the imprint the soul leaves on the physical as well as to the aesthetic beauty of our underlying forms.

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Joseph de la Hoyde is a Sydney based multimedia artist whose practice centres around painting, photography and collected forms to document a ritualistic connection to the seen and unseen world. Drawn to allegory, sacrality and gothicism, his work ambles between darkness and light, where ethereal veiled figures, disquieting natural landscapes and intimate meditations on mortality converge. His work invites his audience into a world of thresholds - otherworldly yet familiar, tender and macabre, creating moments where wonder, disillusionment, transcendence and disquiet go hand in hand.

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