Damian Moss
Recent works 2004

Over the last few years Moss’s work has been exploring aspects found in traditional Japanese and Chinese landscape painting and drawing that relates to the Australian landscape in a contemporary context. These qualities include hierarchical perspective ( as opposed to receding, single point perspective ), the concept of impermanence and transience, the use of the void, simplicity in colour, and the role of scale.

Moss’s work recognises a connectedness with nature, and uses nature as metaphor. His work evokes a sense of time and timelessness, inextricably connected. Subtle shifts in tone, colour, texture and focus are used to explore the play between memory and experience, the universal and the personal. The result is an experience that is intensely intimate and fragile. The artist’s intention is to produce a space that maintains anonymity, yet is marked by the intimate and the particular.