China Heights is proud to introduce two emerging contemporary multi-disciplinary artist - Maddison Angelucci & Gabriel Cole. Both artist have a unique visual language, contrasting yet complementary. Their debut exhibition features painting, ceramics and installation - using the repurposed industrial techniques of gold/silver foiling, airbrush, ceramic tile glazing and enamel sign writing. The combined showcases of Maddison Angelucci 'Everyday lore' and Gabriel Cole 'IF YOU CANT SEE MY MIRRORS I CANT SEE YOU', portrays the varied output of the artists.
Maddison Angelucci - 'Everyday lore' Everyday lore is a visual autobiographical response to emotion and self understanding. His works draw inspiration from pop culture while referencing the aesthetic styles of ancient mythology. The figures represent a return to the study of the human form represented with a contemporary style. A graduate of the National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Angelucci is a Sydney based artist working across multiple mediums of painting, print making and woodblock.
Gabriel Cole - 'IF YOU CANT SEE MY MIRRORS I CANT SEE YOU'
Gabriel Cole’s art explores two dimensional forms with relevance to semiotics, objects, motifs and the inclusion of trucking/logistics as a visual, physical and emotional graphic form. Inspired by a broad soundtrack of hard techno and punk, onto ambient electronica, Cole manipulates these structures and images via considering music as an image not just a sound. These ideas are juxtaposed through a decorative art style that has ties to fashion, design, mark making and sign painting. As the work takes the resolved three dimension form, Cole introduces the technique of layering. Materials in the background have been folded, scrunched and torn to allow for a natural abstraction to occur. However, the foreground portrays a highly considered and delicate painterly hand resting upon glass and ceramics. This stark contrast is Cole’s way of avoiding any grasp on what the viewer might see in the work. These works are an extension of the artists on-going observation of shape, form and colour. Gabriel Cole is a visual artist and designer based in Melbourne Australia. Born in Adelaide with a partially formed left arm, Cole competed as a sprinter at the London and Rio Paralympic games.