Matt Adnate
Still Dreams, 2025
Spray Paint and Acrylic on Linen
178 x 124cm
This portrait depicts a young girl from Kununurra in the Kimberley, painted by Adnate following time spent in community. Created outside of collaboration, the work reflects a quieter, more introspective...
This portrait depicts a young girl from Kununurra in the Kimberley, painted by Adnate following time spent in community. Created outside of collaboration, the work reflects a quieter, more introspective moment within the exhibition.
The composition centres the subject in a state of calm focus, with subtle shifts of light and colour echoing the surrounding Kimberley landscape. The flowing brushstrokes and layered surface evoke movement, memory and atmosphere, allowing the portrait to sit between realism and emotion rather than narrative.
Still Dreams speaks to the inner world of the sitter — a space shaped by place, imagination and becoming — offering a moment of stillness within the broader rhythm of the exhibition.
- ADNATE, 2026
The composition centres the subject in a state of calm focus, with subtle shifts of light and colour echoing the surrounding Kimberley landscape. The flowing brushstrokes and layered surface evoke movement, memory and atmosphere, allowing the portrait to sit between realism and emotion rather than narrative.
Still Dreams speaks to the inner world of the sitter — a space shaped by place, imagination and becoming — offering a moment of stillness within the broader rhythm of the exhibition.
- ADNATE, 2026
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