Jack MacRae

Winter Delight

2023 Oil on canvas 350 mm x 450 mm Framed in oak

Jack MacRae is an emerging artist from the Sunshine Coast/Kabi Kabi Gubi Gubi Country. His work reveals a clear focus on investigating colour, form, technique and materials. He deftly creates hand-cut collages using coloured paper as well as abstract, hardedge colourfield paintings. His art is rationalised to its purest and simplest forms. These forms and shapes intersect with bold planes of colour in his large landscape paintings that offer a flattened perspective of the world, or through the depths of layering colours in big bold circles. Jack distills colours, sensations and moods from his expeditions to produce dream-like works that beckon with their hard lines and soft curves. An exploration of autonomy, materiality, scale and space is key to Jack’s practice and his hand-cut collages are skilful examples of this.