Tim Melville

Dreams of a Chrome T continues Johl Dwyer’s exploration of the ways in which pigment-based colour and light-based colour can meet and intersect.

The exhibition comprises a series of new translucent resin wall sculptures – to which for the first time he has added painted wooden frames – alongside the artist’s continuing series of powder-coated aluminium plinth-based sculptures.
Dwyer writes:

“I have always been intrigued by the PANTONE Goe system – which was created to address the demands of the print and design worlds by providing over 2000 chromatically-arranged solid colours using just 10 base colours. The inexplicable nature of colour as well as the complexities of colour-matching are the focus of my research in this new body of work.”

Dreams of a Chrome T is Johl Dwyer’s sixth solo exhibition at Tim Melville.

Photography: Kallan MacLeod

Johl Dwyer
Magenta Reef
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D
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Johl Dwyer
RA
2019
cedar, enamel, resin, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D

Johl Dwyer
BNBN
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D
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Johl Dwyer
Tudor
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D

Johl Dwyer
Cyclone
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
970mm H x 970mm W x 65mm D

Johl Dwyer
Some Trees
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D

Johl Dwyer
Goosebumps
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D

Johl Dwyer
Fall to Pieces
2019
resin, cedar, enamel, acrylic, pine
970mm H x 970mm W x 65mm D
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Johl Dwyer
Cloud 1915
2019
resin, cedar, oil, enamel, acrylic, pine
620mm H x 620mm W x 65mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION

Johl Dwyer
Grapefruit
2019
resin, enamel, cedar, acrylic, pine
465mm H x 465mm W x 50mm D
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Johl Dwyer
Diagonal Matrix (Pure White)
2016
aluminium, enamel
120mm H x 140mm W stacked squares
Edition: 2