rub
(2014-2015)
Medium
pencil
Measurements
75.3 × 59.8 cm (framed)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2016
© Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Riley Payne’s meticulous photorealist drawings tease out new connections between disparate but instantly recognisable pictorial elements. By re-rendering existing photographic imagery through a labour-intensive drawing process, he attempts to stem the tide of visual information that assaults us daily. Enigmatic and open-ended, Payne’s drawings encourage new relationships between language and image that are achieved through the use of humour, subversion and recontextualisation.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria; New York, New York, United States
Accession Number
2016.35
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings