Chris Hopewell’s painting is process orientated, incorporating gestured marks, tones and textures with photographic collage. Having recently returned from New York to his hometown of Western Australia, the visual impact of his time abroad, such as the graffiti in the New York subway, is apparent in his work.

‘Black Hole Soul’ is built up from gestural brush strokes, overlayed with a large reflective black surface against an abstracted background. These woven dimensions of randomly connected environments evoke a model for how layered thoughts, memories and dreams might integrate and be recorded.