We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

Brett East We gravitate toward you as day fades to night

oil on linen

112 x 84 cm

Hyperreality is generally defined as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. My current body of work explores materiality, representation and hyperreality. I work between lexicons of photography and painting, taking aspects that are inherent to each medium, so that each, through appropriation of the other’s qualities, becomes a simulation; a hyperreal experience that the viewer accepts as truth.

- Brett East