Jonathan Kopinski is a Brisbane-based artist whose work encompasses personal, diaristic painting and peculiar narratives of place. Born in Sydney, Kopinski grew up in suburban Brisbane in the 1990s before graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) from the University of Queensland. He has gradually developed and refined his painting practice over the years, and is particularly drawn to “earnest” forms of art practice such as folk art and the self-taught. He describes himself as a particularly “Brisbane” artist: sketchy, poetically awkward, and ‘very quick on the eye’.
“These works form a type of scenography of seemingly banal or peculiar incidents. Some occur mere hours before they are painted; others are separated by decades. They usually involve strange settings, eccentric characters, and ambiguous abstractions. All are painted from memory, painted spontaneously, and all are important to me. They can be read either as individual pieces or as a collective work – a kind of oblique and playful visual autobiography.”
1. Mid 90s pastoral idyll (or somewhere between Brisbane and the suburb of Guildford, NSW) (2018) 40 x 50 cm Oil on Canvas Oak Floating Frame $780.00
2. River whitecaps over Dutton Park (rushing home before it hails) (2018) 40 x 50 cm, Oil on Canvas Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
3. Rural lifestyle magazine (country style) (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
JONATHAN KOPINSKI -Mount Coot-tha from St Kilda esplanade (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm, Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780
5. Pilgramage to Aldo Rossi’s big column on the corner of Kochstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm Oil on Canvas Board, Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
JONATHAN KOPINSKI – The great eastern Australian dust storm (of 2009) over Brisbane (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
JONATHAN KOPINSKI -Incident on George Street (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00
JONATHAN KOPINSKI – Three architects in a landscape (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm, Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
9. Toowong cemetery has a good view (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00
10. Lonely man walking through a war memorial in a regional town (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm, Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
JONATHAN KOPINSKI -Inverted sandbank (very sweaty) (2017) 40.6 x 50.8 cm, Oil on Canvas, Oak Floating Frame $780.00 (SOLD)
12. After the St Mary’s school fete, 1997 (Dalby is the flattest place I’ve ever seen) (2018) 40.6 x 50.8 cm Oil on Canvas Board, Oak Floating Frame $780.00
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