Hal Witney explores image culture and material consumption using a bold visual language developed variously in painting, drawing and printmaking. Keenly aware of the overlap shared by these contemporary phenomena, Witney borrows from the hyper-sexualised aesthetics and text used to market goods and bodies IRL and online. These gaudy gestures butt uncomfortably against the artist’s own insecurities and closely held values, producing tangled threads of experience through which they work. In the end, these complexities are expounded in the seductive marks laid by tactile materials and brilliant pigments – imbued with activity and pause, passion and poise, pleasure and pain. You are invited to join the artist for drinks on Saturday, August 19, between 2PM and 4PM to celebrate the opening of this fabulous exhibition. Images courtesy the artist and Olsen Gallery.