Series Spotlight - Michael Cusack - 2025 Collection

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Dublin-born artist Michael Cusack emigrated to Australia in 1982 and, now the co-founder of the Byron School of Art, lives and works in Byron. Exhibiting his art many times, in both solo and group exhibitions, Cusack considers himself to be a painter of shapes. Over the years, how he has depicted these shapes has grown, adapted and changed. In his recent works he has moved away from simply creating shapes as they appear in his works and towards the corruptions and complications within the painted surface as the creation of shapes.

Now overlaid and almost collaged, these shapes are hidden and erased, created anew by the interplay of shapes in relation to one another. Whether using stark contrasts, with darker palettes and vibrant standout hues or more subtle, muted and similar colours, Cusack creates open spaces and stacked layers, widespread swathes and swatches of colour, or shattered fractals with sharp edges to create a wide variety of striking artwork out of simple shapes.


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