Jasper Knight takes after pop masters of the past. Rather than starlets however, he pictures icons of industry - beams, machinery, buildings and lighthouses. Found on the city’s outskirts, these images trade in a strange dichotomy: urban detritus rendered in oozing, technicolour excess.

‘Yellow and Grey Suspension Bridge’ is recognisably Knight. In it, he pictures a suspension bridge up close, oozing paint. It echoes Grace Cossington Smith’s ‘The Bridge in-curve’, the great 1930 portrait of a city coming into modernity. In Knight’s version, the energy to animate modernity has subsided. Our bridges are no longer new, their magnificence familiar.

Knight has been a finalist in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. Using bright, flat colour-blocking with characteristic paint-drips to depict his subjects, Knights style is cool and bold. This statuesque painting will add an edge to your space, enriching collections of contemporary art and Knight.

Jasper KNIGHT (1978 - )
'Yellow and Grey Suspension Bridge' 2017
acrylic on canvas
Image Size: 153 x 137 cm
Dimensions: 153 x 137 x 5 cm
Signed: signed, dated and titled on verso
Comes with Letter of Provenance

Condition: Excellent

(c) Jasper Knight / Copyright Agency 2024