Glimpse

Chelsea Gustafsson is back to Murrurundi with a special release of new painting.

Building on the success of her most recent body of work – in which old chairs salvaged from roadside cleanups were dazzlingly recast as the stars of hyper-detailed, highly cinematic still-life miniature paintings – Glimpse pushes the artist’s subject and approach even further into playful and beguiling territory.

Interested in still life’s storytelling possibilities – the alchemy of objects staged in dynamic sculptural arrangements – Gustafsson has amassed a passionate following with her extraordinarily detailed, small-scale paintings rendered with realist precision and filmic panache.

With Glimpse, the artist brings an extra dimension to her still-life tableaux, toying with perspective, framing and scale and layering pictures within pictures. Collaged in space, these compositions read as tiny trompe l’oeil – fabulously deceptive with almost nesting-doll effects and endlessly fascinating to peer into.