Born 1983
Lives and works in Newcastle
Represented by nanda\hobbs
\ Artists
James Drinkwater
\ Winner of the 2014 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship \ Represented by Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary 2017
“James Drinkwater’s paintings are distinctly his own. They are richly patterned like an intriguing carpet – the shapes varied and inventive, the colour subtle with strong contrasts of light and dark and warm sonorous passages. The shapes dance – the movement of the boy dancing or of the sea? There are glimpses of the ocean, the beach, the dark rocks or the shadows in a room. As James says they are about memory and intimacy and one’s eye can wander through the paintings imagining a multiplicity of images in this richly layered world”.
Elisabeth Cummings – artist
James Drinkwater is a Newcastle-based artist whose practice traverses painting, sculpture, assemblage and collage. Drinkwater makes work about place, intimacy and memory, using abstraction, colour and mark making for transmission of these preoccupations.
Drinkwater studied at the National Art School, Sydney, before moving to Melbourne and then Germany. His work is held in major public and private collections both nationally and internationally, including the Macquarie Group Collection, Artbank, Allens law firm, the Newcastle Art Gallery, and private collections in New York, Singapore, Germany and the UK. In 2014 Drinkwater won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship.
James Drinkwater | Looking For Urchins and Louis Ferrari from Nanda\Hobbs on Vimeo.
VIDEO: James Drinkwater painting and discussing his practice ahead of his 2019 exhibition Looking for Urchins and Louis Ferrari
21 Aug 2017 - Listen to James Drinkwater in conversation with Maria Stoljar on Talking with Painters
\ Artworks
Boxer II
2019 \ Bronze \ 28.5 x 13 x 9cm \ Edition of 12
Coming In I
2015 \ Oil and collage on board \ 180 x 122cm
Exiting and Entering (A Series of Theatre)
2019-2020 \ Oil on canvas \ F. 182.5 x 243cm
I go in de meedle
2019 \ Oil on canvas \ 76 x 102cm
Morning Procession
2021 \ Oil on linen \ F. 240x180cm
Postcards Addressed to the Interior 9
2019 \ Ink, oil crayon and charcoal on paper \ 64 x 80cm framed
Stevenson Place
2019 \ Oil and enamel on canvas \ 200 x 160cm
Stoic Rider
2021 \ Oil on linen \ F. 270 x 130cm
The Magnificent Life of Nevia Consalvo
2019 \ Oil on canvas \ 200 x 160cm
The Walk home from the trots
2021 \ Oil on linen \ F. 155 x 116cm
\ News
NH EventPresenting Jun Chen and Melbourne art fair
17 February 2022
We're thrilled to present a solo presentation by Jun Chen at the 2022 Melbourne Art Fair, on show at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Behind the scenes, we also have a small collection of important works including a limited edition triptych screenprint by Francis Bacon accompanied by Mehwish Iqbal, Nicholas Blowers, James Drinkwater and Blak Douglas.
Join us at stand K6.
\ Exhibitions featuring James Drinkwater
James Drinkwater
We Are Clumsy Now on This Southern Beach - New Works from the South of France
22 March — 5 April 2016
12 - 14 Meagher Street
Chippendale, NSW 2008
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