Dean De Landre, Katrina Hill, and Jarryd Lynagh


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China Heights gallery presents new and revisited works by Dean De Landre, Katrina Hill & Jarryd Lynagh co-presented by Louis Vuitton at their Brisbane flagship location. This exhibition brings together three Australian artists who explore the depths of visual culture, memory, and emotional expression through their unique artistic practices.

Dean De Landre, a painter based in Victoria, works predominantly with found illustrations, especially comic book cells. Through a process of alteration, he reduces the colour palettes and textures of these images, transforming them into striking black line works set against minimalist monochromatic backgrounds. His pieces are full of contrast: some, like his depictions of explosions, contain vast energy, teetering on the edge of containment, while others exude a sense of stillness and tranquility, inviting the viewer to engage with the images in a more contemplative way. De Landre’s work challenges the viewer to look beyond the surface, prompting a deeper exploration of the narratives embedded within popular visual culture.

Katrina Hill is an Australian artist based in Brisbane, where she also works as a personalisation artist for Louis Vuitton. Raised in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales in the 1980s, Hill was influenced by both the natural landscape and the vibrant pop culture of the era. With formal training in Interior Design, Animation, and Fine Arts, Hill’s work draws on diverse fields such as neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Her paintings reflect a deeply personal journey of emotion and introspection, using abstraction, bold colour, and dynamic shapes to create mandala-like structures and geometric forms that ground her practice in the present moment. Hill’s first piece in this exhibition, Release, was inspired by the radiant spirit of her mother and captures the emotional complexity of the transition from life to death, embodying both the sorrow of loss and the beauty of release. Through this collection, Hill explores themes of grief, healing, and resilience, using recurring symbols such as the eye, circle, flower, and grid to navigate the emotional landscape of trauma and recovery.

Jarryd Lynagh works through an obscured lens, reimagining found photographs into fragmented narratives that challenge the viewer’s relationship with memory and perception. Photographs, often trusted as windows into reality, hold an intrinsic sense of truth. Yet Lynagh’s manipulation of these images reveals the constructed nature of visual storytelling. The photographs, gathered over the past decade, are abstracted and unmoored by the passage of time, creating a space where memory, reality, and distortion collide. In his work, Lynagh exposes how images, despite their apparent authenticity, can lie—offering a powerful reminder of the complexities and manipulations inherent in photographic imagery.

The works of De Landre, Hill, and Lynagh in this exhibition invite us to pause and reflect on the meanings embedded within the images we encounter. Through their distinctive approaches to image-making and their thoughtful engagement with the analog process, the artists expose the tension between reality and illusion, the past and the present, and the personal and the universal. In doing so, they offer a fresh perspective on the power of visual culture and its ability to reveal new narratives, insights, and emotions.