The timed auction ends Thursday April 16th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Christopher R. Inwood
Pulling disarray into order, 2024
Oil and acrylic in wood
Height 91 cm x Width 61 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $1,000
Pulling Disarray into Order
(from the triptych: Alone. Pulling Disarray into Order. Collapse)
Oil and Acrylic in wood Panel in Custom made Box Frame
Bathed in the bluest blue that ever blued, Pulling Disarray into Order is a luminous meditation on chaos, clarity, and the act of seeing itself. Part of Christopher R Inwood’s conceptual triptych Alone. Pulling Disarray into Order. Collapse, this painting occupies the heart of the series—both literally and metaphorically—as its most compositionally dense and psychologically charged moment.
Set into a handcrafted box frame, the ultramarine panel hums with quiet intensity. Across its surface, Inwood has scattered looping, instinctual ochre-hued squiggles—delicate, deliberate gestures that draw from the artist’s deeply personal experience of entoptic phenomena: the translucent, worm-like threads that drift through our vision when we gaze into a clear sky. Here, those fleeting internal visions are transformed into something external, enduring, and painterly.
These marks are not random. They are rhythm. Repetition. A dance of thought and muscle memory. Having previously layered these squiggles over portraiture, Inwood distills them here into pure abstraction—allowing the surface to become its own subject. The result is a hybrid: part landscape, part optical illusion, part meditative diagram. It’s a work that resists easy categorization—simultaneously decorative and conceptual, cerebral and sensuous.
As the central piece of the triptych, Pulling Disarray into Order pulses with a visual density that balances the looser compositions of Alone and Collapse. Together, the trio maps a poetic emotional journey—from isolation, through the frenetic processing of thought and sensation, to a final release.
This auction offers an exceptional opportunity to acquire a pivotal work from one of Australia’s most introspective and inventive contemporary painters. Whether as a standalone piece or as the crown jewel of a complete triptych, Pulling Disarray into Order is a quiet storm—bold, beautiful, and utterly unforgettable.
A rare fusion of vision and introspection—this is Christopher R Inwood at his most distilled and profound.
Artist Bio: Inwood has exhibited across Australia at galleries, art spaces, and festivals including, Brisbane Power House, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Brisbane Square Library, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional gallery, Brisbane Street Art Festival and has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize x 3, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Percival Portrait Painting Prize x 2, the Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award, Melt Portrait Prize x 3. Inwood refined his understanding of art and its histories at The University of Queensland studying Art History.