SPACE 3 : KEN WENTWORTH

Exhibition dates. 26 June - 7 July , 2024
Opening Reception : Thursday 27 June 2024, 6:00 - 8.30pm.

Ken is a contemporary Australian visual artist based in Melbourne (NAARM). The foundation of his initial painting practice used existing cultural images of public figures from the media and repositioned them into a new allegorical framework, as markers of individual and collective identity, to enable consideration of broader perspectives of meaning.

His evolving current body of work expands upon this via paintings of figure groupings, that are combined with text and installation elements, to encourage consideration of our collective or individual complicity in issues such as climate change, via our apathy, inaction, and susceptibility to manipulation by right wing populist mis/disinformation, conspiracies, false narratives, “alternative facts”, half truths and lies.

The body of work to be exhibited at SOL Gallery will be titled “Relics for future generations”, using media images, text and installation, to create absurd icons of the modern world.

Ken graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts - The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) in the year 2000, and has recently completed a Masters of Fine Art (Coursework) at RMIT University in 2020.