Nigel Sense

Nigel States;

“This exhibition is dripping wet with 90% humidity, the taste of a cold beer on a hot sticky day. That sound of heavy rain that turns everything white, oh damn the wet has arrived early this year. Talk of crocodiles sightings, swag’s and weekend rodeos. Where cars are big and personalities even bigger. A sense that somehow it’s still the 1980s you’re young and it’s time to go out and have some fucking fun after all it’s Darwin”.

Fox Galleries is pleased to announce this year’s final exhibition of 2022 with Nigel Sense ‘Going Troppo: The Darwin Years’. This exhibition follows from his first recent institutional show at The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, and his departure from Darwin.

Sense has always been somewhat of a nomadic traveller, therefore ‘Going Troppo’ was always going to be in the future for this Wollongong-born artist. His distinctive neo pop style is compatible with the shapes and images he uses to tell his story. Moving from large scale-canvas’ to spontaneous expressions on paper bags, tea towels and other nostalgic paraphilia.

Currently in South East Asia, Nigel Sense new works are characterised by the use of vivid colours; looping lines, tracks and arrows that pulls the viewer’s eye to different corners of the canvas; and goofy, grinning characters– human and not-so-human – that complete the narrative arc of these snapshots of the everyday with its joys, energies and interconnectedness.

Sense has an uncanny way of placing you in the middle of a dystopian drama filled with gobstoppers and time travelling motion machines. Just as Takashi Murakami is synonymous for adapting aesthetics and Japanese culture within his popular culture references – Sense imbues a little piece of Australia, a childhood of culture and the curious escapades of a receptive painter who wants to understand and connect with the world around him.

You can view the online exhibition HERE or contact us at admin@foxgalleries.com.au to find out more.