STATION is delighted to present our third solo exhibition with Jason Phu: flowers i picked at a cemetery and left on your door step, now you’re haunted by their ghosts and the cops think you are the cemetery flower robber. Phu’s practice has long tussled with duality and opposition: humour and seriousness, cultural dislocation and cultural homage, affability and anxiety. Painted in a deliberately naïve style with tongue-in-cheek subject matter, while also employing calligraphy, traditional ink paintings and visual motifs from Chinese culture, Phu’s paintings investigate cultural identity within an Australian context. Central to this exhibition is a menagerie of painted flowers that drip and droop down the canvases. The flowers are real and imagined: some flowers that belonged to the artist, some were painted from paintings of flowers, and some entirely made up. Flowers have long been central to Phu’s practice, paying homage to his mother’s career as a florist and a childhood spent surrounded by bouquets and floristry equipment. Those familiar with Phu’s practice will recognise that host of characters that interact with the flowers: dancing ghosts and demons, bugs and animals. With humour and colour the paintings encourage both reflection and conversation.