Chris Town


AVAILABLE WORKS

At his core, Town is a diarist who has been keeping diaries since 1995. These diaries, bound in black cloth tape and formatted as A5 hardcover notebooks, serve as a collection of collated and reimagined ephemera from the world around him. In recent years, Town has shifted his perspective, becoming less interested in using the diaries as a starting point for ideas and projects. Instead, he views the diaries themselves, and the pages within them, as standalone artworks.

One hundred aluminium screen-printed tiles are featured in the exhibition.
Each plate in the ‘DIARIES 1995 - NOW’ series represents a page from these diaries, developed as a screen print in collaboration with Brett Davis. The series explores recurring themes such as idolism, amateur self-help, mass media, substance abuse, and personal experience. Through these works, Town highlights elements of his personal history as well as broader historical narratives, creating cultural connections that reflect the zeitgeist. These narratives, which exist within and pass through him, are presented to the viewer as a shared cultural experience.

Through this exhibition, Chris Town invites viewers to engage with the interplay between personal memory and cultural history, offering a visual and tactile exploration of the narratives that shape individual and collective experiences.

Chris Town is an artist who was born and raised in Sydney and now lives and works in Adelaide.
Town makes art about his own existence, examining and exploring the minutiae of his everyday life, no matter how banal it may seem. Town studied visual arts at the National Art School in Sydney and RMIT in Melbourne. He has had numerous solo shows at China Heights Gallery in Sydney and has been involved in various group shows in South Australia and New South Wales. His work is held in the Artbank collection.