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Two Slices of Bacon 
James Green & Mason Storm

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James Green paints indulgent, abstract images that critique (rather than celebrate) a system that favours the fortunate and neglects the less-so. Rooted in a balance somewhere between fine art tradition and contemporary practice, his paintings often include obscured faces, within compositions somewhat resemblant of a visual fist fight between Francis Bacon and Jean Michel Basquiat.  James has been included in exhibitions from London to Sydney.

Elusive artist Mason Storm paints brilliantly satirical pieces with cultural twists and themes of modernity. Each could be mistaken for a digitally edited photograph. He turns around the traditional portrait by painting a figure from contemporary American culture, surrounded by relevant symbolism or objects.  In world in which photography and computer graphics reign supreme, Storm’s return to traditional, skilled technique to depict modern life is innovative, refreshing and deeply powerful.