Jarryd Lynagh & Dean De Landre

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Spirit finds Dean De Landre and Jarryd Lynagh looking back. Gazing into reflections of the past and dwelling upon the nature of visual story telling. In defiance of the leviathan of contemporary digital imagery, De Landre and Lynagh wield analogue source material to manipulate, to reduce and to isolate. An attempt to separate the layers of how visual culture may wash over us and expose its deceptions. The works in Spirit betray the powers of image based narratives, they are reductive and primordial and seek to plunge one into the depths of a moment unfolding, with no knowledge of what lays on the other side, or what has preceded it.

Dean De Landre, a Victorian based painter, utilises found illustrations predominantly in the form of comic book cells. Altering these cells, De Landre reduces the palettes and textures into dynamic black line work and forms on a monochromatic background. Cells of explosions contain vast dynamism, barely capable of containing the energy within. Conversely, others ripple in tranquility and stillness, moments of nuance detail, quietly pausing to comb through what the images are trying to convey to us outside of the main explanatory vessel of text.

Putting forth the supposition that any collection of photographs is an exercise in surrealist montage, Jarryd Lynagh rehabilitates lost images into an allusory narrative. Photographs possess the magic of the real, their ability to harness the edifice of reality, or at least its surface can provide a false sense of security, an intrinsic trust. Merely by the nature of being presented together, the machinations of visual story telling are exposed. The photographs belong to a set of found images Lynagh has been collating for the past decade. The images yield and abstract pastness, unmoored by the passage time. The pictures, they lie.

De Landre and Lynagh are united in their Spirit, as makers and as old friends.