Moore Contemporary

On view in ‘Light Touch’ is this charged painting that seemingly flickers in its evocation of illumination. Frequently painting from found or filmic imagery JACOB KOTZEE expressively captures narrative ambiguity over representation. Through fragmentation, compositional framing, light and quality application in oils, KOTZEE achieves paintings of suggestion and atmospherics that can be as unsettling as they can be beautiful. His depiction here In luminous white on a graded dark ground shifts between noose to necklace, chain and possibly a reflection rather than reality….

As a relatively recent 2023 graduate it is exciting to welcome JACOB KOTZEE into the group Winter exhibition with two mesmerising new paintings.

Image:

‘Noose, 2025
Oil on canvas
53.5 x 30cm

Image courtesy the Artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY

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CURRENTLY ON VIEW as a part of DARK M**O 2026.

‘The Dogs’ by ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH presented beautifully and powerfully at ROSNY BARN, Hobart Tasmania.

Thank you to the team and

📸 Nina Hamilton

Courtesy the Artist, MOORE CONTEMPORARY and private collection. Enquiries: [email protected]

FINAL DAY

CAITLIN YARDLEY - ‘Relational Painting’

Visit to revel in the materiality of assembled, stitched, folded, wrapped, tucked goat leather and cut metal. Where pattern and edges disrupt the formality of the field and become object.

YARDLEY states:

“Goat leather is not just a surface, it has memory and a grain. When you quilt with it,
you become aware that it is both tough and tender. It holds light in a particular way – it
is matte but not lifeless. It also retains the fact of having once been a body. This brings
something intense and deliberate to working with it. I have thought of goat leather as a
material link to peripheral vision for many years – informed by the goat’s unusually wide field of vision. This idea acknowledges that the connection between things is not always obvious, or even real, but becomes real because I am holding both in view at once.

Many of my projects are built on this, through proximity or through the collision between
one history and another.”

Image 1: External view

Image 2: ‘Relational Painting No. 30’, 2026
quilted aniline goat leather
30 x30 x4cm

📷 Courtesy MOORE CONTEMPORARY