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Christopher R. Inwood
textures, 2026
oil acrylic charcoal in wood
Height 50 cm x Width 40 cm
Artwork is unframed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $900
In Textures, Christopher R. Inwood allows blue itself to become the subject. Two ultramarines occupy a single wood panel: one dark, dense and textural, the other opening into Inwood’s signature field of “the bluest blue that can be blued.” With almost nothing else to distract the eye, subtle differences in surface, depth and intensity become unexpectedly dramatic.
The painting sits somewhere between abstraction, colour study and pure sensory experience. The darker passage appears to possess weight and physicality, while the surrounding blue seems almost limitless. One absorbs light; the other appears to radiate it.
There is something wonderfully uncomplicated about Textures. It does not demand that the viewer decipher a narrative. Instead, Inwood asks us simply to look—to notice how two blues can behave completely differently when placed beside one another.
Minimal yet remarkably seductive, Textures demonstrates that sometimes colour, surface and contrast are more than enough. Quite simply, it is extraordinarily good on the eyeballs.
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.
Dimensions:
50 cm x 40 cm