Series Spotlight - Michael Cusack

Michael Cusack has developed his practice over 30 years, focusing on painting, drawing, and found objects. Born in Dublin, Cusack emigrated to Australia in 1982.

Michael has built his reputation as a painter of shapes. He is interested in paintings as both image and object, and as a consequence, paintings are cut, erased, collaged, and sanded until they begin to fall apart. The liquid language of paint is interchanged with other materials like paper, cement and wood.

In essence, his work can be read as documentation of the transformation of perceptual experience into painterly form, an investigation of materiality through traditional and non-traditional means, aiming to trigger some kind of opening or ensure an ongoing dialogue with his work.